SARFAESI Act | Rajasthan High Court Orders Police To Restore Bank's Possession Of Mortgaged Property Allegedly Reoccupied By Borrowers

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the local Police to immediately take appropriate steps to restore possession of a mortgaged property to a bank, after it alleged that the borrowers had forcibly reoccupied the property despite it having been taken over under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002. [2026 LiveLaw...

S.311 CrPC Meant To Elicit Truth, Not Favour Either Side: Rajasthan High Court Allows Summoning Of Prosecutrix's School Record In POCSO Case

While allowing an application under Section 311 CrPC at the "fag end" of a POCSO trial, the Rajasthan High Court held that the purpose of the provision is not to favour or disfavour the prosecution or the accused, but to naturally unravel the truth to exercise just decision in a case. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 263]Section 311 CrPC empowered the courts to summon, recall, or re-examine any witness or...

Rajasthan High Court Criticizes State For Forming Panel To Examine Land Dispute Despite Final Adjudication By Revenue Court In 1978

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside an order of a single judge that relied upon the report of a fact-finding Commission that was constituted by the State Government despite the fact that the concerned matter had already attained finality in 1978, opining such reliance to be erroneous. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Bipin Gupta further slammed...

Rajasthan High Court Grants Bail To Cyber Fraud Accused Subject To Disclosure Of Crypto Holdings, Digital Wallets

While granting bail in a cyber-fraud case, Rajasthan High Court prohibited the applicants from obtaining/using any new SIM, phone; opening new bank account; or creating any social medial account, domain name or website without prior intimation to the Investigating Officer. The bench of Justice Ravi Chirania further directed the accused persons against using any VPN, TOR Browser, Proxy Server...

Ward Delimitation Must Be Based On Population, Not Number Of Voters: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a challenge against the formation of wards in the upcoming elections of Municipal Body, opining that the determining factor for formation of wards is not the number of voters but population. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Shubha Mehta opined that the entire writ was misleading and based on an...

Interim Orders Shouldn't Inflict Disproportionate Hardship: Rajasthan High Court Allows Relocated Liquor Vend To Operate Pending Dispute

The Rajasthan High Court has reiterated that interim orders are meant to preserve equities between parties and should not inflict disproportionate hardship pending adjudication of a dispute. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 257]Making the observation, a Division Bench of Justice Farjand Ali and Justice Sunil Beniwal permitted a liquor shop licensee to continue operating from a relocated site approved by...

National Interest Prevail Over Individual Convenience: Rajasthan High Court Upholds IAF Officer's Transfer Despite Parents' Medical Hardship

The Rajasthan High Court has upheld the transfer of a Squadron Leader, Indian Air Force who had challenged the same owing to critical medical condition of his parents. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 254]The Court opined that humane considerations, towards the compassionate circumstances, alone could not override the paramount considerations of organizational discipline, operational preparedness, and...

Rajasthan High Court Orders Inquiry Into Alleged Record Manipulation At Service Tribunal

The Rajasthan High Court in an April 17 order, directed inquiry into a service tribunal over alleged record manipulation.This, after Justice Ravi Chirania was dissatisfied with the Registrar's explanation who had tried to "shift the burden" on a clerk."This Court finds this justification highly unreasonable and false on the face of the record. The concerned clerk who committed this mistake...

Rajasthan High Court Orders 46 Years' Disability Pension Arrears To Ex-Air Force Corporal, Says Benefit Can't Be Denied Due To State Inaction

The Rajasthan High Court has granted relief to an Ex-Corporal of the Indian Air Force whose disability pension was discontinued in 1980 owing to pending re-assessment of his disability. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 256]Even after the disability was assessed to be in continuation, the Armed Forces Tribunal directed payment of arrears only since 2019, instead of calculating it from the date...

LiveLaw Rajasthan High Court Weekly Round-Up: June 15 to June 21, 2026

NOMINAL INDEX [Citations 244 - 253]Victory Flour Mills v Smt. Sneh Lal Goyal & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 244Iqbal Khan v State of Rajasthan & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 245Smt. Indra Devi v State of Rajasthan & Anr.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 246Arun Singh & Anr. v State of Rajasthan & Anr.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 247B v N; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 248Rohit Joshi v State of Rajasthan &...

Mere Imposition Of Fine Under Rajasthan Public Gambling Ordinance Not 'Moral Turpitude' To Deny Appointment: High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has affirmed that imposition of fine for an offence under the Rajasthan Public Gambling Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) does not amount to moral turpitude based on which a candidate could be denying public employment. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 255]The bench of Justice Kuldeep Mathur held that where a candidate was convicted, decision to deny public employment could not be...

Magistrate Can't Reject Refer Report Solely Based On Protest Petition: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Cognizance In Rape Case

The Rajasthan High Court has held that a Magistrate cannot reject a negative final report and take cognizance of offences solely on the basis of the averments made in a protest petition, without meaningfully considering the material collected during investigation and recording reasons for disagreeing with the investigating officer's conclusions. Holding that the cognizance order suffered...