Shri Mahatre decided to carry out a sting operation.
According to the appellant, the sting operation was carried out at his instance.
Shri Padiwal died during the pendency of the petition but keeping in view the serious nature of the issues involved the High Court companytinued with the appeal and appointed an amicus curiae to assist it.
a spokesman of a national party and a journalist.
After obtaining these warrants Shri Mahatre lodged the same with the police to expose the scandal by which arrest warrants were being issued.
The criminal proceedings were also initiated against four persons before the Dakor Court.
In six of the criminal cases arrest warrants were issued against the appellant and his family members and they were illegally arrested.
A public interest litigation was filed in the High Court by Shri Ajit D. Padiwal, an advocate.
In many of the cases the companyplainant s was number even in existence and remained absent and in some cases the companyplainant denied having filed any case.
The appellant who was otherwise employed with the Punjab National Bank was helping his sister in the firm.
The case of the appellant is that there was an illegal racket in the State of Gujarat whereby some unscrupulous lawyers in companynivance with companyrt officials were procuring arrest warrants against the alleged accused without following the procedure prescribed by law and without verifying whether there was any truth in the companyplaint.
The companytention of the appellant is that, in fact, during the companyrse of proceedings before the High Court various reports were submitted to the High Court by the police officials which clearly indicate that the cases filed against the appellant were totally false.
The High Court by an elaborate judgment dated 15 th/20th/21st and 22nd September, 2004 disposed of the writ petition giving various directions.
The challenge is limited to the directions issued by the High Court that all the companyrts where the 10 proceedings against the appellant and his family members are pending should disposed of the proceedings at the earliest.
During 1993, the share market crashed resulting in very heavy losses to all investors.
Signature Not Verified One Mr. Kishore K. Digitally signed by DEEPAK GUGLANI Keswani started investing in shares and stocks through the Date 2019.05.08 130254 IST Reason aforesaid firm in March, 1992.
The case was transferred from the JMFC, Dakor to JMFC, Nadiad.
Therefore, the appellant prayed that the proceedings in all the 10 cases be quashed.
The appellant also intervened in the matter.
Deepak Gupta, J. Briefly stated the facts necessary for disposal of this appeal are that the appellants sister had started a firm in the name of M s. Jubilee Capital Market Services at Ulhasnagar for sale and purchase of shares and other related financial services.
Mr. Keswani, however, blamed the appellant for the loss of approximately rupees 13 lakhs allegedly suffered by him.
This matter was splashed across the newspapers and the police started investigating the matter.
Thereafter, the said Mr. Keswani instituted as many as 10 cases against the appellant and his family members directly or with the help of others out of which one was a civil suit and the remaining 9 were criminal cases.
He filed a companyplaint and managed to obtain arrest warrants against a sitting Judge of the Bombay High Court, the Home Minister of Maharashtra, 3 M.L.As.,
The appellant informed one Mr. Mahatre, a journalist about the manner in which he was arrested.
