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Patient Forced To Buy Stents From Private Shop Due To Unavailability At Govt Hospital Entitled To Full Reimbursement: Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court upheld a single judge order directing the State to reimburse the respondent for the entire cost of the stents implanted during his treatment at the government hospital which were procured from a private supplier due to unavailability at the hospital.While underscoring the right to healthcare and affordable treatment as part of Article 21, the division bench of Justice...

Pendency Of Criminal Case Can Keep Selected Candidate Out Of Govt Job, Rajasthan High Court Says; Allows Joining After Acquittal

The Rajasthan High Court has held that State can withhold the appointment of a person against whom a criminal case is pending, since it could not be presumed that in a pending criminal case, a person seeking employment would be acquitted. The bench of former Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Chandra Shekha Sharma, opined that if a person, who was facing criminal charges,...

Widow Securing Compassionate Job After Husbands Death Cant Abandon His Parents: Rajasthan High Court Orders 25% Salary To Mother-In-Law

The Rajasthan High Court has ordered transfer of 25% monthly salary of a deceased employee's former wife, to his mother's account, after the wife remarried and allegedly abandoned the parents of the deceased, despite securing compassionate appointment after his death. The bench of Justice Anand Sharma held that after availing benefit of compassionate appointment based on an undertaking that...

Rajasthan High Court Sits On Holiday, Protects Candidate From Arrest Hours Before Municipal Chairman Poll

Hours before the scheduled election for Chairman of the Kekri Municipal Board in Ajmer, the Rajasthan High Court on Monday (September 21) granted interim protection from arrest to a contesting candidate who apprehended that he would be arrested and prevented from participating in the poll.The petition was heard on a public holiday, with Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observing that doors of the...

Rajasthan High Court Quashes Termination Of Cooperative Bank Employees, Says Registrar Cant Undermine Societys Autonomy

The Rajasthan High Court has held that while exercising powers under Section 125 Rajasthan Cooperative Societies Act, 2001 (the “Act”), the Registrar cannot make such interference that curtails or undermines the autonomy of the society. The bench of Justice Anand Sharma was hearing a petition challenging the orders by which the petitioner's regularisation as a Class IV employee of the...

Rajasthan High Court Grants Last Chance To Lead Evidence In Land Acquisition Case After 12 Years, Directs Planting Of 25 Trees

The Rajasthan High Court has granted a last opportunity to a woman to lead her evidence in a land acquisition case pending for over 12 years, subject to her depositing Rs. 10,000 in the Junior Advocates Welfare Fund and planting 25 shade-bearing trees in a public area.A bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand was hearing a petition challenging an order of the Senior Civil Judge, Jaipur...

In Sunday Special Hearings, Rajasthan High Court Protects Councillors From Arrest Ahead Of Municipal Chairperson Polls

In two hearings held on Sunday, the Rajasthan High Court granted interim protection from arrest to two ward members booked in separate FIRs ahead of elections to two separate Municipal Councils. In the first case, the petitioner therein had been elected as a Ward Member of the Municipal Council, Shri Vijaynagar, District Sri Ganganagar, on September 14, 2026. He was subsequently declared...

Financial Difficulty Alone No Ground To Transfer Matrimonial Case; Husband Can Bear Wifes Travel Expenses: Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court dismissed a petition by a wife, seeking transfer of divorce proceedings from Alwar to Jaipur opining that that merely because petitioner had claimed to be not financially well-off, it could not be accepted that she was unable or incapable of travelling, especially when the respondent-husband was ready to pay off her expenses for such travel. The bench of Justice...

Rajasthan High Court Sets Aside Divorce Decree After Estranged Couple Reconciles, Restores Marriage

While quoting Mahabharata, Rajasthan High Court reversed a divorce decree in light of the post-facto reconciliation reached between the couple for the welfare of their minor daughter, and opined that while administering justice, the Court could not lose sight of the fact that matrimonial litigation was not merely competing legal claims but involved human relations. The division bench of...

Rejection Of Municipal Election Nomination Can Be Challenged Only Through Election Petition: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a petition challenging rejection of Petitioner's nomination papers for the election of Ward Member, Municipal Board Brij Nagar, District Deeg, opining that as per the bar under Article 243-ZG, no election to any municipality could be called into question except by filing an Election Petition, The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that as per...

Employees Conviction For Serious Crime Doesnt Permit Automatic Pension Forfeiture; Hearing Must Be Given: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside an order of the State that stopped and forfeited petitioner's entire pension on the ground of a conviction and imprisonment under the Prevention of Corruption Act (“the Act”), in the background of the fact that no notice was serviced upon the petition before passing of the order.The bench of Justice Anand Sharma affirmed that even where conviction...