RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT

Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the high court issued the notices to the NTA and the central government and sought their response. The court considered the matter to be serious and scheduled the hearing on July 10, counsel for petitioners Rampratap Sain...

The Rajasthan High Court directed the state government to provide compensation to dependents of heatwave victims and emphasized declaring heatwaves and cold waves as national calamities.

A study by legal rights body iProbono reveals that over 9,600 children were wrongly held in adult prisons in India from 2016 to 2021. The study obtained data through the RTI Act, exposing flaws in the juvenile justice system. Many states showed disc...

GoI directs states to withhold MSP benefits from stubble-burning farmers, following Supreme Court's disincentive recommendation. Strategies like in-situ residue management face challenges due to quick field-clearing through burning, slow implementat...

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the state government to prevent child marriages in the state, stating that village heads and panchayat members will be held accountable if they are solemnized. The order came ahead of the Akshay Tritiya festival...

Many businesses, who were served with goods and services tax (GST) notices in December 2023 and January of this year following the extension of the notice issuance deadline, have taken their grievances to various high courts, contesting the legal le...

NIA team was attacked in West Bengal's East Medinipur district on Saturday when it was conducting searches to arrest two key conspirators - Balai Charan Maity and Manobrata Jana - for their alleged involvement in the December 2022 blast in which thr...

Dargah of Ajmer Sharif challenges YouTube in court over offensive videos targeting Khawaja Gharib Nawaz. Sufi sect takes legal action against social media for inflammatory and derogatory content. This is the first time that a Sufi sect has gone to c...

The dispute between the Directorate of Hydrocarbons and Vedanta - Cairn arose due to incorrect cost recovery and non-allocation of common costs that allegedly had a huge "adverse financial implication on the Profit Oil/Gas" payable to the government.

The Election Commission of India issued an advisory to Rahul Gandhi cautioning him to be more careful in his remarks on leaders including the Prime Minister. This comes after the Delhi High Court ordered the Election Commission to decide the matter ...

A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi to approach the Rajasthan High Court for relief after he said Asaram was willing to accept the public prosecutor's suggestion that he could undergo treat...

A bench headed by Justice Surya Kant held that Rule 24(4) of the Rajasthan Police Subordinate Service Rules, 1989, which says "no candidate shall be eligible for appointment to the service who has more than two children on or after June 1, 2002" is ...

In February 2017, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation electoral battle between BJP and Shiv Sena saw three rounds of recounting, each ending up in a tie. Finally, draw of lots settled it in favour of BJP candidate Atul Shah. In December 2017, BJP...

The Supreme Court asked its registry officials on Wednesday to comply with a recent order of the court in which it was directed that the practice of mentioning the caste or religion of litigants must be shunned. On January 10, a bench headed by Just...

The Supreme Court of India has directed courts to stop mentioning the caste or religion of litigants in court cases. The court said that such a practice should be shunned and immediately ceased, and ordered high courts to ensure that caste or religi...

In 2013, the ED imposed a penalty of Rs 98.35 crores on the owners of the franchise team after its preliminary probe revealed alleged irregularities under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).

The apex court on October 13 ordered a continuation of the interim relief awarded to Mahesh Nagar by the Rajasthan High Court during proceedings before it. The interim relief means that no coercive steps can be taken against Nagar by the ED until fu...

The Officer on Special Duty (OSD) of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Lokesh Sharma, met with senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot to discuss the upcoming assembly elections. Sharma, who was recently appointed co-chairman of the Rajasthan Prade...

Justice Kuldeep Mathur gave these directions on Monday while hearing a criminal miscellaneous petition by Ramdev praying for the quashing of the FIR. "The petitioner is directed to appear before the Investigating Officer for interrogation on 05.10.2...