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R/SCR.A/8129/2025 ORDER DATED: 16/06/2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION (HABEAS CORPUS) NO. 8129 of 2025 ========================================================== LILABEN DILIPBHAI KAVDIYA Versus STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: MR KAIVAL D PATEL(13892) for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MR. KISHAN V. CHAUHAN(15862) for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MS JIRGA JHAVERI, ADDL PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE VAIBHAVI D. NANAVATI and HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE UTKARSH THAKORBHAI DESAI
Date : 16/06/2025
ORAL ORDER (PER : HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE VAIBHAVI D. NANAVATI)
1. We have taken up the matter for hearing in the chamber at 1.30 pm today.
2. Upon interaction with the corpus i.e. Pujaben, it emerges that the corpus and her minor daughter are in the custody of Vikas Gruh – respondent no. 3 by virtue of a judicial order passed by the competent court. Upon
R/SCR.A/8129/2025 ORDER DATED: 16/06/2025 further interaction with the corpus and her mother i.e. the petitioner, the petitioner – Lilaben herself has stated that she has visited the corpus Pujaben and the corpus’ minor daughter twice at Vikas Gruh.
3. In view of the fact that the corpus and her minor daughter are in the custody of Vikas Gruh by virtue of a judicial order passed by a competent court, a writ of Habeas Corpus as such would not lie.
4. In light of the above facts, Mr. Kishan Chauhan, the learned advocate appearing for the petitioner does not press this petition. Petition therefore stands disposed of as not pressed.
(VAIBHAVI D. NANAVATI,J) (UTKARSH THAKORBHAI DESAI, J) DIVYA Original copy of this order has been signed by the Hon'ble Judges. Digitally signed by: DIVYA NAIR(HC00199), PRINCIPAL PRIVATE SECRETARY, at High Court of Gujarat on 16/06/2025 17:00:12