Karnataka High Court Refuses To Stay Circular Barring Attendants Inside Ultrasound Rooms In Husband's Plea To Accompany Pregnant Wife

The Karnataka High Court on Friday (January 30) refused to grant interim relief to a husband seeking stay of a 2024 state government circular prohibiting entry of attendants, including spouse, inside ultrasound scan rooms urging that he be permitted to accompany his pregnant wife. While the court did not grant interim relief at this stage, it however told the petitioner to pursue the...

Promise To Marry: Karnataka High Court Refuses To Interfere With Rape Acquittal, Cites Complainant's Own Reluctance To Marry

The Karnataka High Court rejected the State's appeal challenging a man's acquittal accused of rape on false promise of marriage, after noting that the complainant–who met the accused on a matrimonial site–had herself stated that she was unwilling to marry to him. A division bench of Justice HP Sandesh and Justice Venkatesh Naik T was hearing the State's appeal challenging sessions court...

Court Can Direct Interim Sharing Of Joint Family Property Income With Married Sisters Having Constructive Possession: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that married sisters' claim for maintenance from their brother is not maintainable in a partition suit. However, it said, if a prima facie case is made out that a co-owner (plaintiff) is being exclusively deprived of income from joint family property by another co-owner (brother) even though former is in constructive possession, the court may direct...

Can ED Conduct Search And Seizure Without Predicate Offence? Karnataka High Court To Decide

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (January 29) directed ED's adjudicating authority not to close its search and seizure proceedings initiated against a partnership firm under scanner for betting and gambling, until the high court decides the firm's plea questioning the proceedings. The petitioner Puppy Tours and Travels LLP has sought to declare the search, seizure and freezing operations...

Karnataka High Court Suggests Empowering Civil Courts To Stay Mutation Orders In Title, Possession Dispute Cases

The Karnataka High Court (Dharwad bench) has suggested empowering the Civil Court to pass interim measures staying mutation orders passed by revenue authorities under the State Land Revenue Act concerning properties involving possession or title disputes. This the court said would help avoid multiplicity of parallel proceedings and aide litigants, since a title dispute can only be adjudicated...

Karnataka High Court Allows Mother To Approach MEA For OCI Card To Enable Aadhaar For US-Born Child

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (January 28) permitted a woman to file an application with Ministry of External Affairs for issuing an OCI card for her USA born son–residing presently in India–which would be a required document for issuing an Aadhaar card in her son's favour. The court was hearing the minor boy's plea–represented by his mother–seeking a direction to the...

'Who Is Safe?' Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash FIR Against Man Accused Of Taking Woman's Photos Inside Trial Room

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (January 27) refused to entertain a plea for quashing an FIR lodged against a man accused of clicking photographs of a woman while she was in the trial room of a clothing shop in Bengaluru. The petitioner had moved a plea seeking quashing of a 2024 FIR registered by the police for offence of voyeurism under Section 77 BNS. In the interim the petition sought...

Karnataka High Court Denies Bail To Man Accused Of Being ISIS Member, Engaging In Transferring Terror Funds Via Cryptocurrency

The Karnataka High Court dismissed the bail plea of a man accused of being an ISIS member who was allegedly radicalized and recruited by his college mate, was involved in reconnaissance and arson activities with an intention to wage war against the government and engaging in transfer of terror funds through cryptocurrency.A division bench of Justice HP Sandesh and Justice Venkatesh Naik T in...

Karnataka High Court Denies Bail To PFI Member Booked For 'Conspiring' To Radicalize Muslim Youth To Commit Terrorist Acts

The Karnataka High Court refused to grant bail to a man accused of being a member of banned organization Popular Front of India (PFI) of allegedly conspiring to radicalise Muslim youth to carry out terrorist acts, as well as raising funds for the commission of terrorist activities. The court was hearing an appeal by Shahid Khan, one of nineteen accused, challenging dismissal of his bail plea...

Karnataka High Court Asks WinZo's Subsidiary To Submit Employee Details To ED On Plea Seeking Account De-Freeze For Paying Salaries

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (January 27) directed Gaming company WinZo's subsidiary Zo Private Limited to submit details of its employees to the Enforcement Directorate while considering the company's interim plea to de-freeze its account to enable payment of salaries to its employees. The court was hearing Zo Private Limited petition against Rs 193 Crore account freeze by ED...

'Sessions Court Can't Impose Life Imprisonment Without Remission': Karnataka High Court Modifies Murder Convict's Sentence

The Karnataka High Court recently modified a sessions court order convicting a man for murder of a child and sentencing him to life imprisonment until his natural death, holding that sessions court have not been conferred with the power to impose punishment of imprisonment for life without remission. The appellant had challenged a trial court order convicting him for murder and sentencing him...

Karnataka High Court Stalls Probe Against Lamborghini Driver Booked For Reckless Driving

The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Friday (January 23) stayed probe against the driver of a Lamborghini car accused of reckless driving and for retrofitting the silencer due to which the vehicle was stated to be "roaring" beyond the permissible decible limit. As per various news report, a video of the car in question being driven in Bengaluru was circulated widely on social...