THE STATE OF GUJARAT vs PRAVINJI RANCHODJI DHEPA Advocate - V I LODNA — 436/2026

Summary The court acquitted the accused in this case under the Gujarat Prohibition Act, 1949, Section 65(f) for illegal possession of country-made liquor. The court found that while illicit liquor was recovered from the accused's field hut, the prosecution failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt due to insufficient and contradictory evidence, including the absence of proper panchnama witnesses and lack of identification of the accused at the recovery site. The judgment upheld criminal jurisprudence principles requiring reliable corroborating evidence for conviction. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.