The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the deletion of the petitioner's name from the voter list for the 2026 Nagar Palika General Election, holding that Article 243-ZG of the Constitution bars judicial interference once the election process has commenced.
Rajasthan High Court stays the cancellation of a government employee's official housing allotment after finding the charge shifted from unauthorised occupants at an inspection to sub-letting in the final order, without an inquiry report ever being furnished to him.
Madhya Pradesh High Court scraps a state rule paying Class III and IV government employees only 70%, 80% and 90% of the minimum pay scale in their first, second and third probation years, calling the reduced-pay scheme discriminatory and unconstitutional, and orders refunds for amounts already withheld.
Delhi High Court declines to entertain a challenge by Congress leaders to a Special Intensive Revision requirement that voters previously deleted from electoral rolls declare themselves "first-time applicants," holding the challenge should instead be filed as a public interest litigation.
Delhi High Court directs Delhi Police to decide within a week a fresh application by the Kshatriya Karni Sena to hold a September 20 protest at Jantar Mantar against newly notified UGC equity regulations.
Madras High Court directs Tiruppur police to permit installation of a Vinayagar idol for Ganesh Chaturthi after an application went unanswered, remarking that "worship is a fundamental right" and the petitioners should not be prevented from installing the idol.
Madras High Court questions the CBI and Bureau of Immigration's practice of treating Look Out Circulars as confidential, remarking that India "does not follow a Kafkaesque trial" and that a person affected by adverse proceedings has a right to know why.
Madras High Court dismisses two writ petitions seeking inclusion of the OBC category in the House Listing Operation and Population Enumeration of the ongoing census, holding the Centre's decision to enumerate caste data only for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is a policy decision beyond the court's remit.
Bombay High Court declines to pass any pre-emptive order against Maratha quota leader Manoj Jarange-Patil's planned "March to Mumbai," holding it cannot restrain a protest merely on apprehension and that "State machinery is capable of handling all these situations."
Bombay High Court deprecates a Pune-only, 12-day blanket ban on alcohol sale during Ganesh Chaturthi as irrational and warns it would flood hospitals with distressed habitual drinkers, prompting the Collector to cut the ban down to two days.
Bombay High Court voices sharp displeasure at an 18-year delay in implementing a 2008 state policy promising ownership housing to Mumbai's municipal sanitation workers, holding the law does not permit discriminating against the "most exploited, marginalized" rung of the municipal workforce.
Hearing a PIL against statutory schemes that "provincialise" teachers without a fair, competitive recruitment process, Supreme Court issues an interim order barring appointment of any teacher in schools or colleges who lacks the qualifications prescribed under the RTE, NCTE and UGC frameworks.