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The Rajasthan High Court held that a criminal court cannot take cognizance of water pollution offences unless the complainant holds valid prior authorization under Section 49 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
Doctors who voluntarily declined Non-Practising Allowance to retain private practice cannot claim pay parity with juniors who surrendered that practice, the Rajasthan High Court has ruled in a batch of 35 writ petitions.
The Rajasthan High Court has asked National Law University, Jodhpur to obtain instructions on why a former student's mark-sheet has not been issued, while granting time to reply to an amendment application.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand modified bail conditions for an accused held since September 2025, replacing two surety bonds with a personal bond and a direction to plant 25 shade-bearing trees.
Justice Farjand Ali found the Nagaur police's account implausible and held that orchestrated public humiliation of an accused amounts to unlawful punishment outside any statutory framework.
The Jodhpur Bench granted bail to a 20-year-old accused of stalking and sexually harassing a minor, imposing a one-year ban on all social media platforms as a condition.
Justice Ashok Kumar Jain held that a trial court cannot treat a filed charge sheet as incomplete to grant default bail without examining whether the documents suffice to proceed.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that annexing obscene photographs of victims in open court files violates Article 21, and issued a detailed protocol binding the Registry, trial courts, and police statewide.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand accepted a Police Headquarters committee report recommending a three-unit model at 20 pilot stations, directing the State to establish modern forensic labs and increase cadre strength.
Rajasthan High Court dismisses victim's challenge to release of an 80-year-old murder accused, holding that a Medical Board's unanimous dementia finding made waiting for charge-framing an empty formality.
The Rajasthan High Court set aside selections in nine reserved categories of a 53,750-post Class-IV recruitment after finding that over 1,200 candidates with raw negative marks were included through normalisation, with cut-off marks as low as 0.0035 out of 200.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand set aside a magistrate's refusal to release a Thai woman's passport, holding that pendency of a customs case cannot bar renewal of a foreign national's travel document.
The Rajasthan High Court held that a Superintendent of Police may direct further investigation prior to submission of a charge-sheet, rejecting a quashing petition in a dowry death case.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that pursuing Section 482 CrPC before the High Court and Section 397 revision before the Sessions Court simultaneously for the same grievance amounts to abuse of process.
Justice Ashok Kumar Jain held that the State cannot invoke Section 439(2) CrPC to correct a coordinate bench's bail order it disagrees with, absent post-bail misconduct.
