Raj HC asks state govt to conduct Panchayat, Municipal polls by July 31, 2026
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday directed the state government to conduct elections for the Panchayat Raj institutions and the civic bodies by July 31, 2026.
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday directed the state government to conduct elections for the Panchayat Raj institutions and the civic bodies by July 31, 2026.
The Rajasthan High Court has imposed an interim stay on the cutting of trees in the sacred forest grove along the Baiya village in the Fatehgarh region of Jaisalmer district.
The Rajasthan High Court on Saturday upheld a verdict delivered in August last year by a single-judge bench of Samir Jain, cancelling the Rajasthan SI Recruitment Exam 2021.
The Rajasthan High Court has issued show-cause notices to the State Election Commission and State Election Commissioner Rajeshwar Singh for failing to comply with its directive to conduct panchayat and municipal body polls by April 15, 2026.
The petitioner, who works in the Rajasthan Police, also sought directions from the court for horizontal reservations for transgender community (in SC, ST, and other categories) in public education and employment.
The Court, however, kept in abeyance the ₹50,000 costs imposed on him by the Rajasthan High Court after he expressed regret and undertook not to pursue such proceedings again.
According to court and police sources, an email received this morning on the High Court’s official ID threatened to blow up the building using RDX unless the scheduled Jaipur visit of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to inaugurate a cyber security seminar on Friday evening was cancelled.
A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi allowed the appeal after noting that the couple was willing to cooperate with the investigation. Shwetambari Bhatt had earlier been granted interim bail by the top court.
The development comes a day after the Rajasthan High Court's Jodhpur bench passed an interim order directing the CBDT to extend the last date for filing tax audit reports to October 31.
A division bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Sanjith Purohit directed the issuance of notices in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by People Against Corruption.
