NIRMA University

Institute of Law 

Semester III
BA. LL. B (Hons.) 

Executive summary of Internship Training

At GANDHINAGAR DISTRICT COURT

for the Academic year (2019-2020)

Prepared and submitted by

ROHAN SEHGAL
18BAL050
 Executive summary
Week 1

Gandhinagar is a small city in gujarat, but the number of Criminal as well as Civil cases
registered has an increase. The first impression was of horror. The District Court of Gandhinagar
is in utter chaos.
The building is old and the streets go through some parts of the Court it makes one feel that he is
going to a market. It was a little hard at first, but then I got used to it and started learning a lot
more than I had expected.
In the first part of the internship, Sir gave me the past cases of a civil nature. I was exposed to the
working of the gandhinagar district court and the procedures involved in carrying out the day to
day proceedings in the court. Generally the civil cases I was mostly uncovered to were dealing
with Property Law including rent, lease. Then I was told that the law relatwd cases are very less
in this court so i was suggested to not be limited to one area but explore all avenues so In the
second part of the internship I dealt with the criminal aspect of law. I was exposed to various
sections in the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. Not only did I study these
sections in theory, I also learnt about their practical application in the Court studied the landmark
cases related to dowry death, applicability of various sections of the Indian Penal code, 1860.
I gained the practical knowledge related to the fundamentals of the First Information Report, ,
the documents annexed to the FIR, the Criminal Revision the Statement of the Witnesses,
Inquest, Bail Application Work environment and people It is important to intern at the bottom
level to gain knowledge, about the basics involved in the working of the judiciary. Once your
basics are strong, it becomes easier to understand the higher levels of judiciary and the
administration.The people I was working with were extremely gracious since they helped me a
lot to understand how the Court works and where to go and what to do, particularly because I
was so lost during the first two days.This internship absolutely helped me to study the different
aspects law at the root level and the practicality of such aspects in the Court of lawThe worst part
was that all the documents related to the cases are drafted in gujarati and it was extremely
difficult for me to comprehend the difficult words into English and understand the essence of the
document.
It is not that I don’t know gujarati, I know it well! The only problem is that we are not used to
conversing in proper gujarati and it becomes hard to understand the important terms, as
compared to English.
Week II

We did not go deep into the case laws but to give a brief about the laws we came across were
Transfer of Property Act 1882, the Indian Easements Act 1882 the Registration Act 1908; the
Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act which was passed in 1956,Environment
(Protection) Act 1986 and the Forest (Conservation) Act of 1980; Right to Fair Compensation
and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013, Real Estate
(Regulation and Development) Act and the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act,
which came into effect on 1st November 2016; and the Indian Stamp Act 1899 which is also old
but has been amended several times by various States; and the Special Economic Zones Act of
2005. Most oof them came in my way when I was given past cases to study or when we had a
hearing or when I use to attend the hearing of the main court at the district court

WEEK III
the first TWO week was more of an introduction week and getting used to the challenging
atmosphere of the court. The language remained an issue throughout the four weeks. In the first
week I was introduced to the different courtrooms and the working of the district court. There
were different courts for different types of cases the the first floor was given to the main court,
on the second floor the cases of child and women abuse, rape cases were heard. It was shocking
that the cases were heard for five to ten minutes. In the first week I was taught the basic.
It was started with the seventh schedule List II entry 18 Land is a subject falling within the
powers of the State Governments under the Constitution of India1 and hence, property laws in
India may differ from State to State.

Transfer of Property Act, 1882

Chapter one that included Repeal of Acts-Saving of certain enactments, incidents, rights,
liabilities, etc. interpretation clause. Enactments relating to contracts to be taken as part of
Contract Act and supplemental to the Registration Act. Different ways in which property can be
transferred Sale of immovable property Mortgage of immovable property Leases of immovable
property Exchange of property Gift of Immovable Property. While most of the time went inside
thet court room to observe how the cases are heard and how the lawyers argue, one thing an
outsider can notice was that a lawyer in the distict court was more interested in getting another
date rather then wining the case. The language problem was something I feel made me leadge
behind as could not understand most of it. Indian easement act 1882 section 4 easement defined,
section 8 who can impose easement, section 9 servient owner, section 10 lessor and mortgagor.
Section 11 12 13 14 15. One thing great about the district court is that there are so many different
kinds of cases of different fields going on that you can go in any courtroom and meet and lawyer
be it criminal lawyer, property lawyer, marriage etc and choose yor area of interest . in the
second week my lawyer suggested that the cases related two land are very less in comparision of
other fileds and thet judgement related to land dispute takes months to come. So I went in the
family court sat at the judgements of criminal cases, marriage courts, etc

WEEK IV

In this week we did the research work on laws related to land in the present India and the rules
made before independence . We took a stong topic of women’s rights and did a brief study over
the HINDU SUSSESSION ACT 2005. Further we did a detailed research work over Mary Roy
Vs State of Kerale that is a landmark case a Women from the Syrian Christian community in
Kerala were prevented from inheriting property due to patriarchal background. This was
challenged by Mary Roy, a woman's right activist and educator. After this demise of her father,
she filed a case against her elder brother when she was denied equal share in the family's
inheritance. Further though the plea was rejected by the lower court, the Kerala High Court
overrule the previous judgment.

Then In 1986, the apex Court delivered a landmark judgment that granted Syrian Christian
women the right to seek an equal share in their father's property.

In the last week of the internship I went out and from the property law and explored other areas
like criminal law, family law, I communicated with the general practice lawyer.

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