JAIPUR: Princely states are lengthy gone, however the ‘Maharaj' has lingered. Now, Rajasthan excessive court docket has drawn a line.Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal directed descendants of the previous Jaipur royal household to drop the prefixes “Maharaj” and “Princess” from their ongoing petitions or see their 24-year-old case dismissed. The court docket set Oct 13 as the ultimate deadline.Courts had objected to royal honorifics earlier additionallyOne week's time is granted to the petitioners to file an accurate amended trigger title deleting the prefix Maharaj and Princess from the names of the petitioners and respondent, Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal mentioned on Friday.Failure to conform, the court docket warned, would imply automated dismissal “regardless of the court docket”.The directive got here whereas listening to petitions filed in 2001 by authorized heirs of late Jagat Singh and Prithviraj Singh, descendants of the erstwhile Jaipur royal household, difficult the gathering of home tax by municipal authorities.The choose questioned the relevance of royal honorifics in in the present day's republic, declaring that princely privileges have been abolished many years in the past. The court docket requested bluntly why such titles ought to proceed to seem in authorized proceedings.In Jan 2022, the Jaipur bench raised related objections in a associated case, in search of responses from each the Union and Rajasthan governments over the continued use of royal designations. Earlier, Jodhpur principal seat of the excessive court docket had additionally flagged the identical concern in a number of petitions.
