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Casual Approach Frustrating Paperless Courts: Rajasthan High Court Seeks Accountability For Delayed Upload Of Documents

The Rajasthan High Court has taken serious note of the lethargic and casual approach adopted by the stakeholders involved in digitization of the case files, leading to demonstrated delays in uploading of documents on the portal of the Paperless Module, causing great inconvenience to the Court and in-turn frustration of the objective of paperless courts. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar...

Rajasthan High Court Stays Dispossession From Govt Quarter After Noting Different Allegations In Notice & Impugned Order

The Rajasthan High Court has stayed the dispossession of a government employee from his official accommodation after finding that the allegation against him changed from unauthorised persons residing in the quarter to sub-letting of the premises in the subsequent cancellation order.The bench of Justice Anand Sharma noted a “considerable variation” between the initial notice and the...

Rajasthan High Court Directs Govt Advocate Office To Obtain FIR Factual Report Within 3-7 Days To Curb Bail Hearing Delays

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the office of Government Advocate cum Additional Advocate General (GA-cum-AAG) to call upon factual reports of FIRs, preferably within 3-7 days of filing of bail applications, based on which the bail shall be heard and decided in cases of petty offences, unless the Court considers it necessary to call for the case diaries. While underscoring the issue...

Denial Of Cohabitation, False Criminal Case By Wife Amount To Cruelty: Rajasthan High Court Dissolves 22-Year-Old Marriage

The Rajasthan High Court has held that denial of cohabitation by the wife as well as filing of a false criminal case against the husband, amount to cruelty. The division bench of Justice Inderjeet Singh and Justice Sandeep Taneja was hearing an appeal against Family Court's rejection of a divorce application filed by the appellant-husband.It was the case of the husband that the marriage...

Vehicle Seized For Illegal Mining Cant Be Released After Criminal Case Ends; Confiscation Proceedings Must Be Considered: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that the confiscation proceedings initiated by the Mining Department and the criminal proceedings initiated for illegal mining are separate, and conclusion of criminal case does not automatically result in release of the vehicle seized therein. For context, a complaint was filed before the Magistrate under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (“MV Act”), in which...

Rajasthan High Court Directs State Bar Council To Clear Pending Advocate Enrolment Applications, Cites Livelihood Concerns

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the Bar Council of Rajasthan (“BCR”) to dispose of all pending applications for enrolment as advocates latest by September 9 and to inform the concerned candidates accordingly. While taking note of many pending applications for enrolment as advocates, Justice Shubha Mehta stated that such delay was adversely impacting the right to livelihood of...

Rajasthan High Court Declares 1-Km Interim Regulatory Zone Around Jawai Leopard Habitats, Restricts Construction

The Rajasthan High Court has disposed of a PIL that raised concerns regarding the protection of leopard habitat in the Jawai region of District Pali and sought regulations on construction and tourism, by declaring the area within one kilometer of the notified boundary of Jawai Leopard Conservation Reserved as the interim regulatory threshold.It was clarified that, “The said distance...

Insurer Bound To Compensate Bank For Dacoity Loss After Accepting Premium Despite Knowledge Of Security Deficiencies: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held the a bank's claim of loss from dacoity cannot be rejected by the insurance company on the ground of bank's failure to follow the security guidelines prescribed by the RBI, when the fact of such non-compliance was communicated by the bank to the insurance company in the policy proposal.The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that once appropriate...

Husband Not Liable For Wifes Dues From Her Tenure As Sarpanch Without Proof Of His Involvement: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that husband and wife were separate entities, and neither could be held liable for the misconduct or disgraceful act of the other, done in the capacity of a public representative, unless they have also indulged in the same. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand opined, a spouse of an erstwhile public representative, could not be asked to pay dues owed by...