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R/CR.MA/4986/2014 ORDER DATED: 27/03/2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION (FOR QUASHING & SET ASIDE FIR/ORDER) NO. 4986 of 2014 ========================================================== JASHWANTBHAI DHANABHAI SODHA Versus STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR. ========================================================== Appearance: ADVOCATE NOTICE SERVED for the Applicant(s) No. 1 MR. DHAWAN JAYSWAL, LD. ADDL. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Respondent(s) No. 1 RULE SERVED BY DS for the Respondent(s) No. 2 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DIVYESH A. JOSHI
Date : 27/03/2024
ORAL ORDER
1. On 28.04.2023, a Coordinate Bench of this Court passed the following order;
“The record indicates that the notice for advocate is served to the petitioner to engage another advocate though the same was duly served on the petitioner. But neither the petitioner nor the advocate is present. Hence, dismissed for default. Interim relief if any stands vacated.“
2. Thereafter, a restoration application was preferred by the applicant being Criminal Misc. Application No.1245 of 2024, which came to be allowed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 07.02.2024, quashing and setting aside the aforesaid order dated 28.04.2023 thereby restored the main matter being Criminal Misc. Application No.4986 of 2014 to its original file.
R/CR.MA/4986/2014 ORDER DATED: 27/03/2024
3. Today also, when the matter is called out, the applicant has chosen not to appear before this Court either in person or through an advocate and proceed with the matter. Hence, the present application is dismissed for want of prosecution. Rule is discharged. Interim relief, if any, shall stand vacated.
(DIVYESH A. JOSHI,J) VAHID