About Suketu Shah
A profile of professional history, investigative beats, and coverage focus.
Suketu Anubhai Shah is a senior investigative correspondent based in Ahmedabad with over thirty-five years of experience covering some of Gujarat's most critical legal, criminal, and security stories.
His reporting has focused extensively on court dynamics — from district courts to the Supreme Court of India — alongside crime, political affairs, and public administration. In recent years, his focus has centered on investigations involving central agencies including the CBI, DRI, NIA, and ED, tracking complex financial and criminal cases as they move through state and national judicial systems.
Across every publication in his career — from his first reporting assignment at Karnavati Express in 1991 to his current tenure as Senior Correspondent at Sandesh — his focus has remained constant: rigorous, on-the-ground reporting on the state's legal and law enforcement machinery.
In loving memory of Anubhai B. Shah
For fifty-one years, my father, Anubhai B. Shah, walked the courts and crime beats of Gujarat with a quiet, unshakeable dedication — known to colleagues as Anumama and to the field as Anu Kaka, names spoken even today with warmth by the judges and senior advocates who remember him. He worked in an era when journalism demanded far more than it does now — no phones, no shortcuts, just a bicycle, a notebook, and the patience to sit for hours in courtrooms until the truth of a case was fully understood. He turned long days of legal reporting into writing that people wanted to read, never rushing the story, never compromising the facts.
I grew up watching this — sometimes sitting beside him in those very courtrooms — and it was there, as a child, that I quietly decided this would be my life's work too. Everything I have built in journalism since carries his fingerprints: his discipline, his integrity, his refusal to bend the truth even when times were hard. He faced hardship with a calm mind and a steady smile, rebuilding a good and honest life for his family on nothing but his own convictions — and that, more than any single story he ever filed, remains the greatest lesson he left me.
He taught me to walk, holding my finger; he taught me to tell right from wrong, holding nothing back. Twenty-one years have passed since he left us, yet he has never really been gone — he is in every court I have sat in since, every story I have chased, every hard decision I have made and stood by. Whatever I have achieved is his, given to me through his blessings and his example. Today, I remember him with love, with gratitude, and with the deepest respect a son can offer his father.
Miss you, Dad. 🙏