Karnataka High Court
Valuables Should Not Remain In Police Custody: Karnataka High Court Grants Interim Custody Of Seized Articles To Accused
Granting interim custody of seized items to the accused hacker in the Reward360 cyber fraud case, the Karnataka High Court has held that valuable articles cannot be kept idle in police custody for an unduly long period merely because there are 'rival claims' over their ownership.Justice Mohammad Nawaz set aside a Magistrate Court order that had rejected applications for interim custody filed...
'CM Has Better Work To Do': Karnataka High Court Asks CM Office Not To Directly Entertain Transfer Requests
The Karnataka High Court has observed that the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) should not directly entertain or interfere in the transfer and posting of government and public undertaking employees, while remarking that the 'highest authority of the State' has more important duties to perform.A division Bench of Justice D.K Singh and Justice T.M Nadaf held that the appellant employee's...
Karnataka High Court Directs State To File Report On Police Investigations In Dharmasthala 'Mass Burial' Cases
The Karnataka High Court has instructed the state government to file a detailed statement on the investigative steps taken by police officers in multiple unnatural deaths related to the Dharmasthala 'Mass Burial' controversy.Today, the counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha that there have been 74...
Karnataka High Court Seeks Rehabilitation Status Of Families Displaced In Kogilu Demolition Drive
The Karnataka High Court has asked the Amicus Curiae to file a detailed report about the rehabilitation status of the families affected by the 'Kogilu Demolition Drive' undertaken for constructing a Waste Management Plant in December, 2025.During the hearing before the principal bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha, State submitted that a few affected families...
LPG Shortage: Karnataka High Court Seeks Centre's Response To Plea For Uninterrupted Cylinder Supply To Hotels, Restaurants
The Bengaluru Hotels Association and its functionaries have knocked on the doors of the Karnataka High Court seeking a solution for the ongoing scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders, which has threatened to shut down thousands of eateries across Bengaluru.The matter was posted for a preliminary hearing before the single judge bench of Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum yesterday....
Karnataka High Court Grants Bail To Woman Accused Of Raising 'Jai Bangla' Slogan, Notes She Later Shouted 'Jai Bharat Mata Ki Jai'
The Karnataka High Court has granted bail to a 25-year-old woman, a resident of West Bengal, who was arrested for shouting the slogan 'Jai Bangla' during a demolition drive in Bengaluru this January. The single judge bench of Justice S.Rachaiah noted that the woman had uttered 'Jai Bharath Mata Ki Jai' thrice after uttering 'Jai Bangla' once. A person had instigated the woman to shout...
Wife Can't Seek Husband's IT Returns Under RTI Act For Maintenance Proceedings, Exempt Under 'Personal Information': Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has held that a spouse cannot obtain the Income Tax Returns and financial records of the other spouse through an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, as such information constitutes 'personal information' under Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act, exempt from disclosure."…The details disclosed by a person in his income tax returns are...
Karnataka HC Issues 'Gender Neutral' Guidelines To Obtain Spouse's Financial Records In Maintenance Cases, Says RTI Act Cannot Be Utilised
The Karnataka High Court has recently issued uniform guidelines to be followed in 'maintenance' cases to apply for the financial records of their spouse, instead of resorting to the RTI Act.Earlier, the single judge bench of Justice Suraj Govindaraj held in the same order that a spouse cannot obtain the Income Tax Returns and financial records of the other spouse through an application under...
Not Every 'Contentious Probate Proceeding' Results In Decree; 'Substance Over Form' Determines Appeal: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has recently held that an appeal under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure would lie only when the probate court ventures to examine beyond the testamentary rights and determines proprietary civil rights of the parties involved.“…where the probate court travels beyond the statutory limits of testamentary jurisdiction and undertakes a comprehensive...
Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash Child Marriage Case Against Groom, Families; Warns Temples, Priests And Marriage Halls Of Liability
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a Child Marriage case against the groom as well as the families of the groom and the minor girl, by underscoring that ignorance of law or factum of a cordial marital relationship would not legalise the wrong already committed.“Parents who ought to bless their daughters with encouragement, education and empowerment, instead bless them with...
Live-In Relationship With Another Woman Not Bigamy: Karnataka High Court Quashes Wife's Case Against Septuagenarian Husband
The Karnataka High Court has recently quashed criminal proceedings against a 73-year-old husband, his alleged second wife, and his own children, holding that mere living in an 'illegal relationship' does not constitute marriage for the purpose of Section 494 IPC (marrying again during the lifetime of spouse).According to the complainant-wife, her husband, one of the accused in the...
Entire Funds In Account Can't Be Presumed 'Proceeds Of Crime': Karnataka High Court In WinZO Case
Allowing the WinZO group to make the payments to its employees from the company account frozen after money laundering allegations, the Karnataka High Court has held that the entire amount in the accounts of WinZO and its subsidiaries cannot be deemed as 'proceeds of crime'.“…Apex Court has clearly held that the proceeds of crime have to be linked to a predicate offence and it is only...