Outstanding Sportsperson Quota: Rajasthan High Court Prescribes Five-Step Scrutiny, Seeks Reconsideration Of Nursing Officer Candidates

While hearing a bunch of petitions by candidates for the post of Nursing officer, seeking their consideration under Outstanding Sports Person Category, Rajasthan High Court held that such claims had to be examined by the concerned State body in accordance with policy of State mentioned in the circular dated May 27, 2022 by the Department of Personnel (K-2). The bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Jain held that the claims had to be examined in three counts: 1) Level of Participation; 2) Type of Event;...

Rajasthan High Court Flags Inclusion Of Scheduled Areas Within Municipalities' Limits Due To Legal Vacuum, Issues Hybrid Arrangement

The Rajasthan High Court expressed “serious constitutional concern” wherein Scheduled Areas were being included within municipal corporations' limits in the absence of a legal framework owing to prolonged non-enactment of Municipalities (Extension to the Schedules Area) Bill 2001 (MESA). The division bench of Dr. Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Justice Sanjeet Purohit said that in...

Rape By Father 'Transcends Ordinary Criminality'; Victim-Daughter's Testimony Sufficient: Rajasthan High Court

While dismissing an appeal against a rape conviction in a POCSO Case, the Rajasthan High Court held that the testimony of the victim herself, being the daughter of the convict, constituted the best possible evidence of the occurrence, since there was no reason for her to falsely implicate her own father. The division bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mathur and Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma further opined that the delay in lodging the FIR was satisfactorily explained in light of social stigma,...

Poverty Can't Be Bar To Parole: Rajasthan High Court Waives Surety Condition For Indigent Life Convict, Frames Guidelines

The Rajasthan High Court has held that any insistence on sureties from an indigent prisoner as a precondition for being released on parole, who is unable to fulfil that condition, especially after repeated judicial interventions in the past that waived that requirement, is violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution and morally indefensible. The division bench of Justice Arun Monga...

Rajasthan High Court Forms Five-Judge Panel To Review Decision On Working Saturdays After Lawyers' Strike

Rajasthan High Court has constituted a committee comprising the following 5 (five) Judges, to submit their report on whether the decision of the Full Court regarding working of the Rajasthan High Court on two (2) Saturdays each month, is required to be reviewed:Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sameer JainHon'ble Mr. Justice Kuldeep MathurHon'ble Mr. Justice Anil Kumar UpmanHon'ble Mr. Justice Yogendra...

Bail Is The Rule For Juveniles Even If Tried As Adults; Gravity Of Offence No Ground To Deny Bail Under JJ Act: Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court held that bail is the rule for a child in conflict with law under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 (“the Act”) even if the Juvenile was being tried as an “Adult Accused” before the Children's Court.While setting aside orders that rejected bail application of the juvenile petitioner accused of murder, the bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand affirmed that the...

Rajasthan High Court Annual Digest 2025: PART I [Citations 1 - 200]

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 1 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 200Rajasthan HC Cancels Air Force Personnel's Anticipatory Bail Due To Misrepresentation, Hiding True Facts Like Grievous Injury Caused to VictimTitle: Ramesh Kumar v State of Rajasthan & Anr.Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 1The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court cancelled the anticipatory bail of an Air Force personnel on the...

Rajasthan High Court Lawyers Abstain From Work Over Working Saturdays, Bar Bodies To Meet Acting Chief Justice Tomorrow

Lawyers at the Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur abstained from work on Monday (January 5) to protest against High Court's decision declaring the second Saturday of every month as a working day.A press release issued by the Rajasthan High Court Advocates Association, Jodhpur and Rajasthan High Court Lawyers Association, Jodhpur states that in a joint meeting held on January 3 a resolution was...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: December 2025

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 430 NOMINAL INDEX Adnan Haider Bhai v State of Rajasthan, and other connected petition; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 Ravi v State of Rajasthan; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 402 Sayed Sarfaraj v Reserve Bank of India & Anr.; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 403 Rajasthan High Court Advocates' Association & Anr. v State of Rajasthan & Anr.;...

'Prima Facie Discloses Fund Siphoning': Rajasthan High Court Refuses To Quash Cheating FIR Against Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, Others

The Rajasthan High Court rejected pleas filed by filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and other persons seeking quashing of a cheating FIR lodged against them, observing that the FIR at this stage "prima facie" disclosed allegations of siphoning, diverting and misappropriation of funds which cannot be treated as "mere breach of contract". The matter related to a FIR being filed against the...

Third Party Has No Locus To Oppose Withdrawal Of Criminal Complaint: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court recently rejected a petition challenging a trial court order that allowed withdrawal of a private complaint, opining that a third party who was neither the victim nor the complainant themselves, had no locus standi to revive the criminal proceedings.The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand emphasized that if such practice is allowed in a casual manner, any...

Registered Owner Not Entitled To Interim Release Of Vehicle Seized In NDPS Case If He Is Also An Accused: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that the registered owner of a vehicle, seized in relation to an NDPS case, is not entitled to get interim custody of the vehicle merely on the grounds of ownership if he/she himself/herself is one of the accused in the case. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand was hearing a petition challenging the order of the trial court wherein the application filed by...