Overview
- Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal warned that failure to comply will lead to automatic dismissal of the case "without reference to the court."
- Petitioners have one week to file amended cause titles removing the honorifics from the names of parties.
- The petitions, filed in 2001 by heirs of the late Jagat Singh and Prithviraj Singh, challenge municipal house-tax collection.
- The court questioned the relevance of royal titles in a republic, citing Article 363A and referencing Article 14 as reported.
- Earlier proceedings at the Jaipur bench in 2022 and at the Jodhpur principal seat raised the same concern, with the next hearing listed for Oct. 13.