Gujarat High Court sets Friday deadline after government cites rain for delay in prosecutor decision

4 min readVadodaraJul 27, 2026 08:39 PM IST The case concerns the alleged custodial death of 65-year-old Telangana daily wage worker Shaikh Babu Nisar. (Express File Photo/Enhanced using AI) The Gujarat High Court on Monday granted the state government additional time till Friday to decide on Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the 2019 ‘custodial death’ case of Telangana migrant worker Shaikh Babu Nisar in Vadodara’s Fatehgunj police station, after the government cited heavy rains and widespread waterlogging across the state as the reason for the delay in taking a call in the matter. Justice M K Thakker noted that despite the court’s earlier direction, no decision had been taken on whether advocate S I Ghariya should continue as Special Public Prosecutor in the long-pending trial.Appearing