The Rajasthan High Court, while dismissing a petition seeing direction to the state government for covering of borewells, has observed that mere general averments/allegations based on newspaper reports should not and will not be a cause for taking cognisance in public interest.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to High Courts to take appropriate steps to adopt uniform procedure for case registration, use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations and make the court fee uniform.
The Centre has notified the transfers of Allahabad High Court Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Rajasthan High Court Justice Satish Kumar Sharma to the Madras High Court and the Madhya Pradesh High Court respectively. The Centre also notified the appointment of three additional judges of the Calcutta High Court.
A single-judge bench of Supreme Court stayed an arrest warrant issued against Alok Dhir in relation to the State Bank of India (SBI) loan scam while hearing a petition filed by him and others.