High Court of Gujarat

LALIT JAYANTIBHAI DOBARIYAversusSTATE OF GUJARAT

Disposal: 37-DISMISSED FOR DEFAULT @ ADMISSION
Bench: VIMAL K VYAS

Holding

The applications will be dismissed for want of prosecution if the pending objections are not removed by 12 September 2025.

Summary

Satiben Ravjibhai Chavda filed several criminal miscellaneous applications seeking to quash FIRs and orders against the State of Gujarat. The High Court noted that objections to the applications were pending. The Court directed that the objections be removed by 12 September 2025, failing which the applications would be dismissed for want of prosecution. No substantive merits of the applications were addressed. The order essentially set a procedural deadline and indicated dismissal if compliance was not achieved.

Issues considered

Whether the criminal miscellaneous applications for quashing FIRs/orders can proceed despite pending objections
Whether the Court may dismiss the applications for want of prosecution if objections are not removed within the stipulated time

Subjects

quashing FIRcriminal miscellaneous applicationprocedural compliancewant of prosecutionHigh Court order

Judgment

       R/CR.MA/16818/2020                                                              ORDER DATED: 14/08/2025




                 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD

       R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION (FOR QUASHING & SET ASIDE
                      FIR/ORDER) NO.16818 of 2020
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.19982 of 2020
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.7912 of 2021
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.10912 of 2021
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.11564 of 2021
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.13645 of 2021
                                 With
             R/CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION NO.22838 of 2021
                                 With
           R/SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.10134 of 2021
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                                   SATIBEN RAVJIBHAI CHAVDA
                                             Versus
                                  THE STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR.
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Appearance :
MR BM MANGUKIYA for the Applicant(s) No. 1
MS BELA A PRAJAPATI for the Applicant(s) No. 1
PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent(s) No. 1
RULE NOT RECD BACK for the Respondent(s) No. 2
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  CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NIRZAR S. DESAI

                                         Date : 14/08/2025
                                       COMMON ORAL ORDER


                      O ice objections to be removed on or before 12.9.2025,
failing which the matters shall stand dismissed for want of
prosecution without reference to this Court.


                                                                                   (NIRZAR S. DESAI,J)
SAVARIYA

Original copy of this order has been signed by the Hon'ble Judge.
Digitally signed by: RAJNISH NARENDRA SAVARIYA(HC00179), PRINCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY, at High Court of Gujarat on 14/08/2025 16:19:30




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