Karnataka High Court Stays Trial Against CM Siddaramaiah In BJP's Criminal Defamation Complaint Over 'Corruption Rate Card' Ads

The Karnataka High Court on Friday by way of interim order stayed the trial court proceedings against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in a criminal defamation case filed by the State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party.A single judge Justice S R Krishna Kumar issued notice to the respondent and stayed the proceedings pending before the trial court. Advocate General Shashi Kiran Shetty appeared for...

Union Backed By Custom, Cohabitation & Birth Of Child Must Be Treated As Valid Marriage For Purposes Of S.125 CrPC: Patna HC

"Disregarding such a union would not only be legally unsound but would also send a regressive message to society, undermining the dignity of women and the security of children born from such relationships" : Patna High Court said.

Tenants Can't Resist Demolition Of Dilapidated Building, Protecting Life More Important Than Enforcing Tenancy Rights: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that protection from threat to life of tenant in a dilapidated building is more important than the tenancy rights of individuals under the U.P. Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021.The bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Jayant Banerji held“The tenants, however, will not be entitled to object to the expeditious demolition of the...

Himachal Pradesh High Court Restrains Sale Of "Old Mist" Coffee-Flavoured Rum In Trademark Infringement Suit By "Old Monk" Brand Owners

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has granted an ex parte ad interim injunction in favour of Mohan Meakin Limited, the owner of Old Monk/Old Monk Coffee. The Court restrained Eston Roman Brewery & Distillery Pvt. Ltd from selling its coffee-flavoured rum under the mark “OLD MIST ”, till further orders, finding that the product was substantially similar to the plaintiff's...

Magistrate Not Barred To Take Cognizance For Second Time For Different Offences If Prima Facie Case Established: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has held that a Magistrate, even after taking cognizance for certain offences on the basis of charge-sheet filed by investigating agency, is not barred from taking cognizance again for some other serious offences, if prima facie case is established by means of sufficient materials.Clarifying the position of law regarding validity of a second cognizance, the Single Bench...

Person Charged U/S 376 IPC For Rape Can Be Convicted U/S 354 Even In Absence Of A Specific Charge : Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court has reaffirmed that a person charged for rape under section 370 of IPC can be lawfully convicted under section 354 of IPC for assaulting a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty, even in the absence of specific charge to that effect, if the evidence proves the lesser offence.Justice M B Snehalatha thus dismissed the revision petition preferred by the accused...

Gujarat High Court Asks Police To Look Into Man's Cheating Claim Against Fertility Centre Alleging Child Born Via IVF Is Not His

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (July 9) directed the police to look into a man's grievance alleging cheating and forgery by a fertility hospital wherein he claimed that a DNA test revealed that he is not the biological father of the child born to him and his wife through IVF procedure. The plea has alleged "cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery" levelled against the...

Reasonable Care Must Be Applied Before Invoking Offence Of Endangering Sovereignty, Unity & Integrity Of India: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that 'reasonable care' and 'standards of a reasonable person' must be applied before invoking Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which criminalizes alleged acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India. The Court added that since spoken words or posts on social media are also covered by the liberty of freedom of...

'To Err Is Human': Allahabad HC Directs Re-Checking Of NEET Aspirant's OMR Who Accidentally Mentioned Wrong Booklet Code

Recently, the Allahabad High Court directed re-checking of a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test [NEET (UG)]-2025 aspirant's Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) sheet who had 'wrongly' mentioned the question booklet number and had secured 41 marks instead of 589 marks. While not giving any interim relief to the petitioner regarding her selection status, the bench of Justice Arindam...

Karnataka High Court Monthly Digest: May 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 161 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 193Nominal Index: X & others AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 161Kanaka Lakshmi B M AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 162SRI C T RAVI v/s STATE BY BAGEWADI P S AND OTHERS. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 163handrashekhar AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 164High Court Of Karnataka AND The Union of...

Merely Supporting Pakistan Sans Referring To Any Incident Or India Doesn't Attract S. 152 BNS: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday observed that merely showing support to Pakistan without referring to any incident or mentioning the name of India will not, prima facie, attract the offence under Section 152 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which penalises acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India. A bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal made this...

Gujarat High Court Fines 'Journalist' ₹1 Lakh For Abusing PIL Jurisdiction

The Gujarat High Court imposed cost of Rs. 1 Lakh on a man claiming to be the Chief Editor of Navsari Times Weekly, for filing a PIL based on "false statement and misleading" the court regarding grant of development rights to a company for commercial construction on a land while claiming that it falls in a residential zone. In doing so, the Court while dismissing the PIL, remarked that a...