High Court of Gujarat

BHUMIKA PARESHBHAI PATELversusRANGE INSPECTOR GENERAL

Disposal: 37-DISMISSED FOR DEFAULT @ ADMISSION
Bench: M R MENGDEY

Holding

The application is dismissed for non-prosecution as the petitioner's counsel failed to appear.

Summary

The petitioners, Bhumika Pareshbhai Patel and another, filed Special Criminal Application No. 5195 of 2025 against the Range Inspector General and others. The petition was listed before the High Court of Gujarat, Ahmedabad. The petitioner's counsel, Prashant V. Chavda, failed to appear when the matter was called out. The respondent's counsel, Meet Thakkar, was present. The Court observed that the petitioners had not prosecuted the application and consequently dismissed the matter. No substantive merits of the case were considered.

Issues considered

Whether the Special Criminal Application can proceed in the absence of the petitioner's counsel?

Subjects

Special Criminal Applicationnon-prosecutionprocedural defaultcourt dismissalabsence of counsel

Judgment

        R/SCR.A/5195/2025                                                     ORDER DATED: 18/08/2026




                 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD

     R/SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION (DIRECTION) NO. 5195 of 2025

  ==========================================================
                            BHUMIKA PARESHBHAI PATEL & ANR.
                                        Versus
                            RANGE INSPECTOR GENERAL & ORS.
  ==========================================================
  Appearance:
  PRASHANT V CHAVDA(8510) for the Applicant(s) No. 1,2
  MR MEET THAKKAR, APP for the Respondent(s) No. 1
  ==========================================================

     CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M. R. MENGDEY

                                            Date : 18/08/2026

                                                   ORDER

           Learned advocate for the petitioners is not present when the matter is
  called out. Hence, the matter stands dismissed for non-prosecution.




                                                                                  (M. R. MENGDEY,J)
  Manshi


Original copy of this order has been signed by the Hon'ble Judge.
Digitally signed by: AMIN MANSI(HC01561), Private Secretary, at High Court of Gujarat on 18/08/2026 15:25:26




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