Surat: A Surat court has sentenced a Talati-Mantri (village revenue officer) to three years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹25,000 after convicting him in a 2008 bribery case involving just ₹1,000. The accused, Himmat Solanki, had demanded a bribe from a land broker in exchange for providing land-related documents in Singanpor village, Surat. After some negotiation, the amount was settled at ₹800, and a meeting was scheduled at Solanki’s office on March 25, 2008. Unwill...Read More

Surat: With a marital dispute already ongoing, a man from Indore has now approached a court in Surat to stop his minor son from being initiated as a Jain monk, claiming the decision was made without his consent. Bhavin Chandrakant Shah, a resident of Indore, filed a petition in the Principal Senior Civil Judge's Court in Surat under the provisions of the Guardian and Wards Act. He named his estranged wife, Binal Shah, a resident of Dumas in Surat, as the respondent. The couple's son has been li...Read More