Gujarat High Court

From banning AI in adjudication to restricting evidence processing and imposing accountability, the Gujarat High Court’s policy responds to growing misuse of AI tools, as courts increasingly confront fabricated citations and unreliable outputs in proceedings.

The present case stems from an appeal filed in the High Court by the royal family of Danta. In this petition, a 2008 judgment of the Banaskantha District Court has been challenged.

Gujarat High Court dismissed 150 Waqf petitions, ruling boards must pay court fees like temples and other faiths. It ended years of exemptions under the Waqf Act, clarifying Section 83 proceedings as full litigation. Deputy CM hailed it as historic for equality.

The High Court refused to treat the accused as 'victims; of religious conversion, noting that they lured others to convert to Islam after converting themselves.

A single bench of Justice Mauna Bhatt passed the order last month, rejecting the petition filed by Pathan.

For the unversed, a total of 58 Hindu pilgrims (including 27 women and 10 children) who were travelling in the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express were burnt alive by a Muslim mob on the morning of 27 February 2002. The carnage took place near the Godhra railway station in Gujarat.

The state government clarified that the land in question is government-owned waste land, which was acquired for the construction of the highway under the provisions of the National Highways Act, 1956, as per the rules and after following due legal procedures.