The court of Justice AY Kogje had issued notice to this effect on August 14 to the respondent parties, including the Gandhinagar district collector and state government authorities. Around 250 slum dwellers in Gandhinagar have moved the Gujarat High Court […]
Palanpur: Two youths were booked for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman in Balisana village of Patan district on Tuesday. According to the complaint filed by the woman, she that the accused Pankaj Patel of Manunj village had offered her lift […]
The past couple of weeks, particularly these first days of September, have been a defining period in the history of India. It is no longer about the ‘writing is on the wall’; it is much beyond, not any more a […]
In November 2018, a special court in Una had convicted 11 men of murdering Lalji and also under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and sentenced them to life imprisonment. EIGHT YEARS after a Dalit man […]
Ahmedabad: In 2019, 30 persons lost their lives in Gujarat after they fell into manholes. India recorded 100 such deaths last year and Gujarat accounted for 30% of the national deaths, the highest in India. Maharashtra came second with 19. […]
Surat: Police detained Jogaram Sen, a contractor, on Tuesday in the death of two labourers who died of suffocation after they were made to enter a manhole without safety gears. The accused will be arrested after Covid-19 test. In the […]
Twenty-four hours after the criminal complaint is lodged against the police officer and two jawans for the police atrocity there is no action yet. On Saturday evening, the Limbdi Police team thrashed dalits, just because they were selling and drinking […]
In a significant decision related to women’s reservation in Gujarat, the Gujarat High Court (HC) has quashed and set aside a controversial general resolution (GR) on the subject, issued by the General Administration Department (GAD) of the Gujarat government. The […]
Section 15A (5) of the Act, which states that a victim or his dependent “shall be entitled to be heard” at any proceeding under this Act, was also challenged. Hemal Jain submitted that these two provisions are directory in nature […]
Under the “Nal se Jal” scheme of the Centre, the Gujarat government has decided to regularise illegal water connections for drinking water meant for independent residential households in urban areas, an official statement said on Saturday. The government also said […]
