<h1>Arbitrary promotion criteria flagged for short service women officers; mixed rulings on religious conclave, publicity, custody, processions, taxes, defamation</h1> The Supreme Court criticized arbitrary criteria used to evaluate short service commission women officers seeking permanent commission and refused to entertain challenges to a state board's decision to hold a religious conclave; the Court signalled scrutiny but left the conclave order intact. A high court indicated it will grant an interim injunction protecting a filmmaker's personality/publicity rights. A trial court extended judicial custody in a fatal BMW crash case. The high court barred post-election victory processions after university student polls and upheld a municipal authority's higher property-tax rate on luxury hotels as not arbitrary. In a defamation hearing, defence counsel said the exact impugned content was not produced.