The Gujarat High Court has been hearing a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the rising cases of Covid-19, taking stock of the available medical facilities in the state. Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Kania have flagged some issues for State’s consideration, noting that it needs toContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has ruled that a woman, who follows a religion other than Hinduism, is entitled to the inheritance of her Hindu father’s ancestral property, according to the Hindu Succession Act. A bench of Chief Justice R S Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi on March 7Continue Reading
The 2002 incident triggered sectarian violence that killed more than 1,000 people in GujaratContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Monday sentenced seven persons to life imprisonment in a case related to the 2002 post-Godhra riots at Viramgam in the district where three people had been killed. The court also upheld the conviction by the trial court of two others for murder, and acquittalContinue Reading
Revising the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat, the US state department’s new 67-page report on human rights situation in India has expressed “concern” over the Gujarat government’s “failure to hold accountable those responsible for the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 persons,Continue Reading
The court was of the opinion that in absence of a uniform civil code having more than one wife is not an offence in the Muslim community. It, however, observed polygamy “is an exception and not a rule.” Continue Reading
