Media Professionals Must Not Threaten Or Extort: High Court Refuses To Quash Extortion FIR Against Zee Rajasthan's Former Head

Remarking that "media professionals are expected to avoid causing undue harm to anyone by way of threat or extortion", the Rajasthan High Court refused to quash an extortion FIR registered against former Channel Head of Zee Rajasthan on a complaint filed by the company. While underscoring the far-reaching impact of media, Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed that media, being the fourth pillar...

NEET | Biology In Class 11 Not Mandatory: Rajasthan High Court Orders Admission Of Candidate Who Took Biology As Additional Subject In Class 12

Rajasthan High Court granted relief to a successful NEET candidate whose candidature was rejected solely on the ground that he did not pursue Biology in Class 11th, rather studied and passed it in Class 12th only, that too as an additional subject.The bench of Dr. Justice Nupur Bhati opined that the Public Notice issued in 2023 by the National Medical Commission (“NMC”), as well as...

Trials Are Quest For Truth, Filing False Documents Is Fraud On Court: Rajasthan High Court Upholds Enquiry Into Sale Deed

Observing that every trial is meant to discover the truth and filing false documents amounts to fraud on the court, the Rajasthan High Court upheld an order directing enquiry into the genuineness of an allegedly forged sale deed.The court at the outset noted, “Truth is the foundation of justice…The entire judicial system has been created only to discover and establish the real...

Recruitment Advertised For Tribal Areas Creates Legitimate Expectation; State Can't Post Candidate Elsewhere Sans Reasons: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that the State cannot extend an attractive promise at the stage of recruitment and later altogether depart from it without any rational justification.The bench of Justice Farjand Ali held that a legitimate expectation could undoubtedly arise in the candidates' mind at the time of entering service that their posting would be in or around the regions for which...

Standard Of Family's Indigence For Compassionate Appointment Can't Be Interpreted As 'Beggary': Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that the technical definition of “indigent” under Order XXXIII, Rule 1 of CPC, could not be transposed mechanically into the domain of compassionate appointment as that would reduce the scheme illusory,by imposing a threshold that no eligible family could practically meet.“Indigent Person” under CPC meant that a person who did not possess sufficient...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: October 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 331 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 360 NOMINAL INDEX Lrs of Purakh Singh & Anr. v Narendra Singh & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 331 Surendra Kumar Gupta & Ors. v State of Rajasthan & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 332 Annpurna Medical Training (College of Nursing) v State of Rajasthan & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 333 X v Y 2025 LiveLaw (Raj)...

Rajasthan High Court Mandates Digital Medico-Legal Reports From Feb 2026 After Finding Post-Mortem Report 'Unreadable'

Highlighting the “pathetic form” and incorrigible manner of preparing the Medico Legal Reports by the doctors and medical jurists, Rajasthan High Court issued directions for the State Government, making the use of Medico legal Examination and Post Morten Reporting (MedLEaPR) Software (“the Software”) mandatory with effect from February 1, 2026. The bench of Justice Ravi...

POCSO Conviction Can't Be Based Solely On DNA Evidence When Prosecutrix Turns Hostile: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court upheld a trial court order acquitting an accused under the POCSO Act, stating that no person can be convicted solely based on the DNA report, in the absence of any specific allegations of rape/sexual assault by the prosecutrix.A written report was filed against the accused by the father of prosecutrix, alleging abduction of his minor daughter. Case was registered...

Rajasthan High Court Slams Lawyer's Clerk For Signing Affidavit On Behalf Of Party, Says Practice Amounts To Fraud

The Rajasthan High Court has flagged the instance of advocates or their clerks signing affidavits for applications/petitions/counter affidavits, etc, on behalf of their clients without knowing the contents of such documents, and held that such conduct amounted to fraud and was unacceptable. The court said:“Justice is often metaphorically termed to be blind, but the officers of Courts must...

FIR Lodged 20 Months After Separation Only To Revenge Husband's Divorce Plea: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Wife's Cruelty FIR

The Rajasthan High Court has quashed a "retaliatory" cruelty FIR lodged against a man, underscoring that the case was instituted by the wife 20 months after living separately, only to revenge the divorce proceedings instituted by him.The bench of Justice Anand Sharma further took into account that her response to the divorce plea, which was filed before the Court after lodging Section 498A...

Accused's Right To Fair Trial Trumps Privacy Rights Of Police: Rajasthan High Court Orders Cop's Mobile Location Data Be Preserved In Drugs Case

After a man booked under the NDPS Act alleged that the police officer was present at the site of recovery beforehand and had planted the drugs purportedly recovered from his possession, the Rajasthan High Court ordered preservation of officer's mobile tower location data under Section 94 BNSS.In doing so, Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed,"No doubt, while passing the appropriate direction...

Past Censure Cannot Bar Employee's Consideration For Promotion: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that irrespective of the penalty being imposed on an employee, the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) can adjudge the suitability of an employee for promotion, and the consideration itself could not be denied merely on the ground of imposed penalty.The bench of Justice Farjand Ali was hearing a petition challenging the petitioner's (Lecturer) denial...