Six days left, and it goes by post. Applications must reach the Gujarat Police Recruitment Board at Gandhinagar by 15 September 2026 — that is a date of receipt, not a date of dispatch. If you are applying from outside Gujarat, the practical last date to post is 11 or 12 September.
The Gujarat Police Recruitment Board has advertised two posts of Legal Executive at Gandhinagar on a fixed consolidated remuneration of ₹60,000 per month. Advertisement No. GPRB/01/કરાર/2026.
Before you read further, three things that the job portals carrying this vacancy have left out, and one thing they have got wrong.
- This is not a post. It is an eleven-month contract, terminable on one month’s notice, with no pension, no leave entitlement, and an express clause that the appointee acquires no right to permanent appointment or absorption.
- Enrolment with the Bar Council of Gujarat is required. An advocate enrolled elsewhere is not eligible as things stand.
- There is a ₹100 demand draft to be enclosed, and a prescribed application form that forms part of the advertisement.
- And the correction: at least three of your five years must be in the Gujarat High Court. At least one national legal news portal has reported this vacancy as requiring only “5 years advocate practice experience”. It does not. The three-year High Court component is part of the same eligibility clause.
At a glance
| Authority | Gujarat Police Recruitment Board, Gandhinagar — over the signature of the Director General of Police and Chairman |
| Advertisement | No. GPRB/01/કરાર/2026 (GPRB/01/Contract/2026) |
| Post | Legal Executive (કાયદા અધિકારી) |
| Vacancies | 02 (two) — no category-wise breakup is given |
| Nature | Contract for 11 months from the date of joining |
| Place of posting | GPRB office, Gandhinagar · residence at Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar is mandatory |
| Remuneration | ₹60,000 per month, fixed and consolidated — no other allowance |
| Qualification | Law degree from a recognised Indian University, eligible to practise · enrolment with the Bar Council of Gujarat · basic computer skills |
| Experience | 5 years practice as an advocate in any court, of which at least 3 years in the Gujarat High Court |
| Languages | Knowledge of English, Gujarati and Hindi required |
| Age | Maximum 50 years as on 31.08.2026 · no minimum stated · no relaxation stated |
| Fee | ₹100 by non-refundable Demand Draft favouring “Chairman, Gujarat Police Recruitment Board” |
| Selection | Personal interview only — no written examination — and document verification |
| Mode | By Speed Post or RPAD only, in the prescribed proforma |
| Last date | 15 September 2026 — date of receipt |
| Address | Chairman, Gujarat Police Recruitment Board, Bungalow No. G/12, Sector-9, Gandhinagar |
Read the advertisement
Open / Download the advertisement and application form (PDF)
Advertisement No. GPRB/01/કરાર/2026 — six pages in Gujarati, with the prescribed application proforma at pages 5–6. Also available on gprb.gujarat.gov.in.
Eligibility, clause by clause
Qualification
The advertisement requires three things together, not in the alternative:
- A degree in law from a recognised University in India, and eligibility to practise law.
- Enrolment with the Bar Council of Gujarat. The application form asks for the date of enrolment.
- Basic computer skills. The form asks the candidate to answer yes or no.
The Bar Council condition deserves emphasis because it is the one most likely to be missed. An advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi, Maharashtra or Punjab and Haryana does not satisfy it on the face of the advertisement, however long the practice. Transfer of enrolment between State Bar Councils is provided for by Section 18 of the Advocates Act, 1961, but it is not instantaneous, and nothing in this advertisement suggests that a transfer application in progress will do. If you are seriously interested and enrolled elsewhere, that is a question to put to the Board before spending ₹100 on a demand draft.
Experience — and the three-year High Court component
The clause is in two parts, the second governed by the first. In substance:
Must possess five years’ experience of practice as an advocate in any court — of which at least three years’ practice in the Hon’ble Gujarat High Court.
Read as it stands, the three years in the High Court is not a preference; it is a component of the five-year requirement. That materially narrows the field. A District Court advocate at Rajkot or Surat with twelve years’ standing and occasional High Court appearances does not obviously qualify, while a Gujarat High Court junior of five years’ standing does.
A candid caveat, because it matters: the advertisement is in Gujarati and uses a legacy font, and the operative verb of the eligibility sentence sits in the first limb rather than being repeated in the second. Our reading is that the three-year condition is mandatory, and that is how the Board is likely to apply it at scrutiny. But if you have five years at the Bar with somewhat less than three in the High Court, the sensible course is to apply and let the Board decide, setting out your High Court appearances honestly in the experience column of the form. An application rejected at scrutiny costs a hundred rupees and a Speed Post charge. Not applying costs the post.
Language
Knowledge of English, Gujarati and Hindi is required, and the prescribed form asks you to declare proficiency in each separately. Given that the work involves parawise remarks and affidavits filed before the Gujarat High Court, and correspondence within the State police establishment, this is a real requirement rather than a formality.
Age
Maximum 50 years as on 31 August 2026. No minimum age is prescribed — the five-year practice requirement supplies one in practice. No relaxation is stated for any category, and the advertisement gives no category-wise breakup of the two posts.
Why this post exists
It is worth understanding what you would be walking into, because the volume is not incidental to the job — it is the job.
GPRB is Gujarat’s dedicated recruitment body for the police establishment: Lokrakshak and Police Constable (unarmed, armed and SRPF), Police Sub-Inspector, Jail Sepoy and Jailer Grade-II. The current cycle alone runs to 13,591 vacancies — 12,733 Lokrakshak and 858 PSI — with well over eighteen thousand candidates shortlisted for document verification in August 2026.
Recruitment on that scale generates service litigation on a corresponding scale. A full-text search for “Police Recruitment Board” together with Gujarat returns well over a hundred reported matters, overwhelmingly writ petitions by candidates in the Gujarat High Court, running continuously from 2015 to the present. Physical standards, marks, category certificates, character verification, cut-offs, exclusions at document verification — each of these produces its own line of petitions.
The recruitment process is itself under judicial supervision. In a suo motu public interest litigation, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Pranav Trivedi, by order dated 27 September 2024, required the Director General of Police to furnish a timetable for completing direct recruitment to 25,660 posts of Police Sub-Inspector and Constable, in phases running up to September 2026.
That is the context in which a recruitment board decides it needs two lawyers of its own, sitting in Gandhinagar, on eleven-month contracts.
What you would actually do
The duties, as the advertisement sets them out:
- All cases of the Board in the subordinate courts and the Gujarat High Court.
- Supreme Court matters, and cases transferred outside Gujarat.
- Liaison with Government Pleaders and State panel advocates at the Supreme Court and the Gujarat High Court.
- Preparing parawise remarks and affidavits, briefing Government advocates, and remaining present at hearings.
- Any other court work assigned.
One point of precision. The advertisement names the subordinate courts, the High Court and the Supreme Court. It does not mention the Central Administrative Tribunal or the Gujarat State Administrative Tribunal, and you should not assume tribunal work is part of the brief.
Note also that the advertised work is instructing and briefing, not appearing. You would be the Board’s internal lawyer preparing the material on which Government Pleaders and panel advocates argue. For an advocate with three years in the Gujarat High Court, this is the view from the other side of the brief — how a State instrumentality assembles a return, what its record actually contains, and why affidavits come out the way they do. That is genuinely instructive, and it is not something you learn from the Bar.
The terms — read these before the salary
| Tenure | Eleven months from the date of joining. Services end on expiry of the contract period. No provision for extension or renewal is stated. |
| Termination | Either party may terminate on one month’s notice. |
| No regularisation | The appointee shall have no claim to permanent appointment and acquires no right to absorption into the Government establishment. |
| Remuneration | ₹60,000 per month, fixed and consolidated. No pension. No leave entitlement. No additional allowance. |
| Hours | Duty to work beyond office hours, on weekends and on public holidays when notices are received, without extra remuneration. |
| Residence | Residence at Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar is mandatory. Headquarters may not be left without permission. |
Eleven months is not an accident. It is the standard device by which a contractual engagement is kept short of the twelve-month threshold that begins to attract arguments about continuity of service. Read together with the express no-regularisation clause, the Board has drafted this to foreclose exactly the claim that lawyers on such contracts sometimes bring. Go in knowing that.
On the money: ₹60,000 a month, fixed, with no allowance and no leave, is a fair but not generous figure for an advocate of five years’ standing with three in the Gujarat High Court — roughly what a good junior in Ahmedabad might make, without the upside. The genuine returns here are the exposure to a very large service-litigation docket, the Supreme Court coordination, and the line on the CV. If you are weighing this against a growing practice, weigh those and not the figure.
Applying — and the postal deadline
The application is on the prescribed proforma at pages 5 and 6 of the advertisement. It asks for name, father’s or spouse’s name, date of birth and age, present and permanent addresses, educational qualifications, date of enrolment with the Bar Council, computer knowledge (yes or no), proficiency in Gujarati, Hindi and English separately, advocate experience with the duration and the court in each case, experience as a panel advocate, whether any disciplinary or criminal proceedings are pending or have been concluded, and a declaration.
Enclose the ₹100 non-refundable Demand Draft in favour of “Chairman, Gujarat Police Recruitment Board”, together with self-attested copies of every certificate. Send by Speed Post or RPAD to:
Chairman, Gujarat Police Recruitment Board
Bungalow No. G/12, Sector-9
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Four practical points, and the first is the one that will decide most applications.
- The deadline is receipt, not dispatch. The advertisement requires that the application be received by 15 September 2026. Speed Post within Gujarat is usually two days; from Delhi or Chandigarh, three to four, and longer if a weekend intervenes. Post by 11 September. Do not rely on posting on the 14th.
- The demand draft takes a working day. If you bank at a branch that issues drafts on request, you may get it the same day; otherwise budget a day. This is the second most common reason a postal application misses its date.
- Fill the experience column properly. Duration and court are asked for separately. Given that the eligibility turns on three years in the High Court, this column is the application. Set out the period, the court, and if it helps, the nature of the matters.
- Answer the disciplinary and criminal proceedings column. It is asked expressly, and a disclosed answer is always safer than an omitted one.
Who should apply
Apply if you are a Gujarat High Court advocate of five years’ standing, enrolled with the Bar Council of Gujarat, living in or willing to move to Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar, and interested in service and recruitment law. Two posts on a single interview, with no written examination and a candidate pool restricted by the three-year High Court condition, is a narrow field by any measure. Selection is on interview alone — which means the shortlisting on paper matters enormously, and so does how you present three years of High Court work.
Do not apply if you are looking for security. Eleven months, one month’s notice either way, no leave, no pension, no renewal clause, work on Sundays without extra pay, and an express bar on any claim to regularisation. This is a defined engagement, and it should be taken for what it teaches rather than for where it leads.
Whatever you decide, decide by Friday. The post office is the constraint, not the Board.
Disclaimer: This post is a summary of Advertisement No. GPRB/01/કરાર/2026 of the Gujarat Police Recruitment Board and is prepared for the information of readers. The advertisement is in Gujarati; the passages set out above are translations and reconstructions of substance and are not character-exact quotations of the original, which should be consulted directly. The advertisement carries no printed date of issue. The reading that the three-year Gujarat High Court component is mandatory is our own, and the Board alone will determine eligibility. The bank or place at which the Demand Draft is payable is not specified in the advertisement and should be confirmed. Candidates must read the official advertisement in full and rely on it alone. Lawizard.in accepts no responsibility for any decision taken on the basis of this post.
Sources: Gujarat Police Recruitment Board, Advertisement No. GPRB/01/કરાર/2026 for the post of Legal Executive on contract basis; gprb.gujarat.gov.in; Verdictum job update; LiveLaw on the Gujarat High Court’s suo motu directions to the DGP on the recruitment timetable, order dated 27.09.2024.
