Karnataka High Court Monthly Digest: June 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 194 to Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 222Nominal Index:Puneet H R AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 194Rana George AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 195Priti Singh & Others AND Reliance General Insurance Co Ltd & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 196Denis Crasta AND Union of India & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 197Harish AND State of...

HC Decision Rejecting Claim Of Encroachment Of Public Road Binding On Legislative Council Petitions Committee: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has set aside a direction issued by the Petition Committee of the Karnataka Legislative Council regarding the alleged encroachment of a public road in Rajakaluve.Justice Suraj Govindaraj allowed the petition filed by C Bhavani @Hamsa and quashed the directive issued by the Committee on March 8, 2017. It said “The impugned direction dated 8.3.2017 issued by...

'You're So Powerful', Can't Get BMRCL To Publish Fare Fixation Report On Namma Metro? Karnataka High Court Asks In Plea By BJP's Tejasvi Surya

The Karnataka High Court on Monday (July 7) issued notice to the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited, (BMRCL), State and Centre on a petition by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya seeking a direction to the BMRCL to forthwith publish/release the Fare Fixation Committee Report which was headed by former Justice R Tharani.Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav issued notice to the respondents returnable a week...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: June 29 - July 06, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 221 to Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 225.Nominal Index: Sriramulu AND U Ravi Rao & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 221Rachappa Satish Kumar & ANR AND M/s Eaglesight Media Private Limited & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 222.B S Gupta AND The Commissioner & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 223Devibai AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar)...

Karnataka High Court Grants Interim Relief To BJP MLC N Ravikumar Accused Of Making 'Vulgar Comments' Against Chief Secretary

The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Friday (July 4) directed the police "not to take any precipitative action" till July 8 against BJP Member of Legislative Council (MLC) N Ravikumar who has been booked for making allegedly derogatory and vulgar comments against State's Chief Secretary and IAS officer Shalini Rajneesh.The court was hearing Ravikumar's plea seeking quashing of the...

Karnataka High Court Quashes Man's Sexual Assault Complaint Against Malayalam Film Director Ranjith

The Karnataka High Court on Friday quashed the criminal case filed by a man against Malayalam film director Ranjith Balkrishnan alleging sexual harassment.A single judge bench of Justice S R Krishna Kumar allowed the petition and quashed the case registered for offences under Section 377 (unnatural sex) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66E of the Information Technology Act,...

Karnataka High Court Stays Proceedings Against Deputy CM DK Shivakumar In Defamation Case Filed By State BJP Unit

In an interim order passed today, the Karnataka High Court stayed the trial court proceedings against State Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar in a criminal defamation case filed by the State BJP unit. The same relief was also extended to the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). A bench of Justice SR Krishna Kumar issued notice to the respondent, returnable on July 29. Notably, in...

S.483(3) BNSS | High Court Can't Cancel Bail Granted By Sessions Court In Absence Of Breach Of Conditions: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High court has said that in absence of any violation of bail conditions, the order of Sessions Court granting bail to an accused cannot be sought to be cancelled before the High Court by filing an application under Section 483(3) of BNSS, 2023.A Single judge, Justice V Srishananda held thus while dismissing the petition filed by the mother of a rape victim, challenging grant of...

With IT Act Proceedings Ongoing, Karnataka HC Directs 'Proton Mail' To Keep Blocking Abusive Email IDs Upon Intimation By 'Moser'

In the ongoing issue concerning offensive emails allegedly sent via Proton Mail (appellant) to the female employees of M Moser Design Associates (India) Pvt Ltd (respondent no. 1), the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed Moser to share with Proton, the email IDs from which such messages are still being received, so they could be blocked by Proton. In turn, a Division Bench of...

Proposal For Transgender Reservation Will Be Placed Before Appropriate Council Of The Varsity: NLSIU Tells Karnataka High Court

The National Law School of India University has agreed before the Karnataka High Court to place the issue of granting reservation in admission to Transgender persons, before an appropriate council of the varsity.This comes in Varsity's challenge to a single bench decision, asking it to provide reservation of 0.5% to transgender persons, with fee waiver, until the State takes a policy decision...

Centre Flags IT Act Violations By Proton Mail, Says Response Being Analysed; Decision Within 8 Weeks, Karnataka HC Told

The Karnataka High Court today continued hearing an appeal preferred by Proton AG, a Switzerland-based email service providing company, which has challenged a single judge order directing to block its services in India. The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice V Kameswar Rao and Justice CM Joshi took note of the Centre's submission that apart from the two URLs initially flagged by...

'Justify His Suspension': Karnataka High Court To State In Challenge To CAT Order Revoking Cop's Suspension In Bengaluru Stampede Case

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (July 03) asked the State government to justify its action of suspending police officers over the charge of dereliction of duty, following the stampede near Chinnaswamy stadium ahead of the RCB team's 2025 IPL victory celebration.A division bench of Justice S G Pandit and Justice T M Nadaf was hearing the petition filed by the State government challenging...