academy Icon academy Icon lawbiz Icon
Subscribe Premium

 Rajasthan High Court

Vacancies Arising From Resignations Cant Be Filled From Waiting List, Require Fresh Selection: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that vacancies in public employments that arise on account of non-joining or subsequent resignations are considered fresh vacancies that are required to be filled by a new recruitment process and not by operating the reserve or waiting list prepared pursuant to the concerned selection process. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal and...

Bar On Application Of Hindu Marriage Act To Scheduled Tribes Doesnt Apply If Couple Follows Hindu Customs: Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court has held that persons belonging to Scheduled Tribes following Hindu traditions and customs will be governed by Hindu Marriage Act and thus cannot be relegated to customary courts when the parties themselves admit that they are following Hindu rites.In doing so the court granted divorce to a couple belonging to Meena Community under the Hindu Marriage Act after noting that...

Rajasthan High Court Expunges Unsatisfactory Service Remarks Against Legal Aid Counsel, Cites Impact On Young Lawyers Career

Rajasthan High Court set aside an order of the District Legal Service Authority (DSLA) against a young Legal Aid Defence Counsel that terminated his services and passed stigmatic remarks about his services being negligent and unsatisfactory, to the extent of expunging the adverse remarks that were passed without any enquiry, while retaining the termination. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar...

Rajasthan High Court Grants Third Parole To Convict Despite Earlier Unauthorized Absence, Cites Long Custody & Favourable Reports

The Rajasthan High Court has granted third regular parole to a convict whose application was earlier rejected by the District Parole Advisory Committee on the ground of his unauthorised absence during a night inspection while he was lodged in an Open Air Camp, following which he was sent back to jail.A division bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mathur and Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma took...

Probationer Can Be Transferred: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Condition Denying Relieving On Transfer

The Rajasthan High Court has affirmed that unless there is a prohibition in any statute for not transferring an employee from one place to another during his/her probation period, authorities could not put such a condition in the relevant transfer order, that being de hors the law. The division bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mathur and Justice Chandra Shekhar Sharma further observed that in...

S.148 NI Act | Repeal Of 2018 Amendment Act Doesnt End 20% Pre-Deposit Pending Cheque-Bounce Appeal: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that introduction of Repealing and Amendment Act 2025 that repealed Amendment Act of 2018 which brought into effect Section 148 in the Negotiable Instruments Act, did not affect the applicability of the provision. Section 148 NI Act empowers an Appellate Court to order the appellant, convicted for offence of cheque dishonour, to deposit a minimum of 20% of...

Trying To Sail In Two Boats: Rajasthan High Court Rejects Doctors Plea To Retain Lien In Two Govt Services While Pursuing Higher Studies

The Rajasthan High Court has rejected a doctor's plea seeking extension of time to join as an Assistant Professor in General Surgery while pursuing his M.Ch. in Urology, holding that a government servant cannot retain lien on two substantive posts simultaneously.Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed that extension of joining time is meant to meet administrative exigencies or personal hardship...

Alarming Degradation: Rajasthan High Court Initiates Suo Motu PIL To Protect Jaipurs UNESCO World Heritage Status

The Rajasthan High Court has initiated a suo motu PIL over concerns surrounding the preservation of Jaipur's historic Walled City and protection of its UNESCO World Heritage Site status.A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal and Justice Sameer Jain expressed deep concern over the “alarming degradation” of the historic Walled City, observing that there was a “grave and...

Mechanical Transfer Of Caregiver 1000 Kms Away From Thalassemia Patient Inhumane, Violates Article 21: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside the order by UCO Bank wherein the caregiver of a Thalassemia patient was transferred 1,000 kms away without reasonable consideration and through mechanical application of the transfer policy. Remarking that the transfer order was "inhumane and violative of Article 21 of the Constitution", the bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed:"Transferring...

Rajasthan High Court Imposes ₹10,000 Costs On State For Forcing Employee To Litigate Over Name Correction

The Rajasthan High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 10,000 on the State government, for failing to correct the name of an employee in the service records owing to their "impersonal and irresponsible" approach, and pushing her towards unnecessary litigation. “This Court cannot remain a mute spectator to such harassment. The Courts are already overburdened with genuine lis. If the State and...

Rajasthan High Court Upholds 10% Lifetime Pension Cut After Police Officials Fled Mob, Sub-Inspector Burnt Alive

The Rajasthan High Court has upheld the punishment of withholding 10% of the pension payable to three retired police officials for their lifetime, after finding them guilty of grave negligence in discharging their duties during a law-and-order situation that resulted in the death of a Sub-Inspector.Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that the disciplinary proceedings could continue after...