Karnataka High Court Waives Office Objections Raised By Registry In Matters Filed From April 19 To August 2

The order said "In all cases other than criminal cases covered by the order dated 12th May 2021 filed from 19th April 2021 till 2nd August 2021 (both days inclusive) in the High Court at the Principal Seat and both the Benches at Dharwad and Kalaburagi, all the office objections save and except the objections enlisted below shall stand waived for the time being.

The objections which are not waived are as under:-

a) Objection regarding non-payment of Court fee or insufficient payment of Court fee;

b) Objection regarding bar of limitation;

c) Objection regarding maintainability of the proceedings;

d) Objection regarding failure to furnish second set of papers (only in case of Division Bench matters);

e) Objection regarding non-compliance of Rule 3A of Chapter 10 of the High Court of Karnataka Rules, 1959;

f) Objection regarding non-compliance with the Circular dated 20th July 2019 in Criminal Petitions about the failure to serve the petitions in advance to the office of the State Public Prosecutor;

g) Objection regarding failure to annex the copies of impugned judgment/orders/ impugned notifications/impugned endorsements/impugned communications;

The court had said "All objections raised in the cases other than criminal cases covered by the order dated 12th May 2021 filed during the period from 19th April 2021 to 2nd August 2021 (both days inclusive) except the objections which are enlisted above shall stand waived. All the cases where the objections raised are not covered by any of the seven objections enlisted above shall be registered for placing the same before the Court."

It had clarified "We, however, make it clear that this order will not preclude the concerned Courts hearing the matters from directing the rectification of any specific objection which goes to the root of the matter and which prevents the Court from hearing the cases on merits"