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IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
NIKHIL S.KARIEL
Rajnikant Lavjibhai Chaudhari – Appellant
Versus
Principal District Judge, Mehsana – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
NIKHIL S. KARIEL, J.
1. Heard learned advocate Mr.R.G.Chaudhary appearing on behalf of the petitioner, learned advocate Mr.Vikas Nair appearing on behalf of respondents no.1 and 2, learned advocate Mr.P.R.Nanavaty appearing on behalf of respondents no.15, 17, 18, 20 and 23, learned advocate Mr.Sahil Shah appearing on behalf of respondent no.6, learned advocate Mr.Vaibhav Vyas with learned advocate Ms.Prachi Upadhya appearing on behalf of respondents no. 5, 8, 19 and 22, learned advocate Ms.Harshal Pandya appearing on behalf of respondent no.11 and learned advocate Ms.Himanshi Balodi for learned advocate Mr.Anand Sharma appearing on behalf of respondents no.3, 7, 10, 12, 13 and 14. 2. The present petition had been preferred in the year 2007 inter alia challenging orders dated 20.12.2006 and 11.01.2007 as being arbitrary, illegal etc. and in defiance of an order passed by a learned Coordinate Bench in the first round of litigation being Special Civil Application No.17627/2006 and allied matters.
2.1. It would appear that when the petition had been taken up for the first time, the counsel appearing for the District Judge, Mehsana had submitted to this Court that because of som
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