<h1>Multiple legal actions follow threats, deadly blasts and collisions; decriminalisation bill pending, defamation suits transferred</h1> A regional news batch raises several legal issues: an activist threatened electoral retaliation over perceived betrayal on a community reservation decision, while the state government's assurance that OBC quotas will remain unaffected ended related protests; the administration faces political criticism but has not altered legal policy. A magistrate-level criminal inquiry is likely after a fatal explosives-factory blast and a separate highway collision causing multiple deaths. The high court found fears of threats against litigants reasonable and permitted transfer of defamation suits to another jurisdiction. A decriminalisation bill to remove minor offences is pending, and police are pursuing suspects in a judge extortion threat.