Gujarat confidential: Bench & Bargain

This is not the High Court of Allahabad. The richness of the state and the richness of the people here gives us this much liberty to impose Rs 10,000. So, let him pay this much".

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The Maharashtra Samaj Ahmedabad, which will celebrate 100 years of its foundation on December 16, will see Sonalben Shah, wife of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, as a guest of honour, as she hails from Kolhapur in Maharashtra.

The Gujarat High Court imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 on a land seller for filing “repeated petitions” as it dismissed his plea challenging a sale deed of 2011 even as a civil suit remains pending before a lower court. While the petitioner’s advocate pleaded that he be allowed to withdraw instead, Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal made it clear that the cost was imposed not because of the advocate but rather because the court infrastructure was being misused by filing repeated petitions.

“We are imposing costs not because of you, we are imposing costs because you utilised the services of our staff. There is an entire fleet of staff and then there is our peon who is carrying this file, then our court master who is putting this file before us.

All this court infrastructure is not for people who are coming again and again,” the Chief Justice remarked. Rejecting requests by the advocate to reduce the amount to Rs 5,000, the Chief Justice said, “If he can come again, he can pay Rs 10,000.

For the High Court of Gujarat, Rs 10,000 is lesser (sic).

This is not the High Court of Allahabad. The richness of the state and the richness of the people here gives us this much liberty to impose Rs 10,000. So, let him pay this much”.

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A release from the Samaj said the three-day celebration might see Amit Shah and Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis participate. The samaj has the country’s first speaker Ganesh V Mavalankar, who was based in Ahmedabad, among its founders.

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