Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: August 11 To August 17, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 265 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 275Nominal Index: Suhas L AND The Chief Registrar Births And Deaths & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 265 Spunklane Media Private Limited AND Harshendra Kumar D. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 266ABC AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 267Murali Krishna Brahmandam AND Chief Secretary & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 268Girish Bharadwaj & ANR AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 269Jayalakshmi M AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 270PIO & THE PROJECT DIRECTOR NIRMITI KENDRA AND THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 271Muzammil Kazi & ANR AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 272Assistant Director, ESI Corporation AND M/s. Sansera Engineering P Ltd. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 273Ramamurthy C K & Others AND Bosch Limited & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 274Louis Dreyfus Company India Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 275Judgments/OrdersCivil Suit Seeking Corrections In Birth/Death Certificate Not Maintainable: Karnataka High CourtCase Title: Suhas L AND The Chief Registrar Births And Deaths & OthersCase No: REGULAR FIRST APPEAL NO.2454 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 265The Karnataka High Court has held that a civil suit for seeking rectification of entries in a Death Certificate is not maintainable.Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum said, “This Court is of the considered view that the present suit, filed before the Civil Court seeking rectification of entries in the Death Certificate, is not maintainable. There exists a clear bar under Section 9 of the CPC, as the nature of the relief falls exclusively within the domain of the Registrar under Section 15 of the 1969 Act (Registration of Births And Deaths Act)."Karnataka High Court Closes The News Minute's Plea After Trial Court Refuses To Extend 'Gag' Order In Dharmasthala Burial CaseCase Title: Spunklane Media Private Limited AND Harshendra Kumar DCase No: Writ Petition No 23819/2025Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 266The Karnataka High Court was on Monday (August 11) informed that the trial court had refused to extend its July 18 ex-parte interim 'gag' order restraining various media entities and YouTube channels from publishing any "defamatory content" about Harshendra Kumar D and his kin, in connection with the Dharmasthala Burial case.The development happened in a plea filed by Spunklane Media Pvt. Ltd., a company which owns and operates 'The News Minute' web portal, challenging the ex-parte interim 'gag order'.Karnataka High Court Quashes Abetment FIR Against Wife Despite Husband's Suicide NoteCase Title: ABC AND State of Karnataka & ANRCase No: CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 100661 OF 2025Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 267The Karnataka High Court quashed an abetment to suicide FIR lodged against a woman after her estranged husband allegedly committed suicide, noting that there was no act mentioned in his "death note" which had any nexus to his death.Justice S Vishwajith Shetty allowed a petition filed by the woman booked for abetment to suicide (Section 108 BNS) observing that a reading of the complaint in the case would show that necessary ingredients to attract the alleged offence were not found.'PIL Not For Litigants To Vent Ideas': Karnataka High Court Fines Man ₹1 Lakh For Seeking Discussion On Bill Drafted By HimCase Title: Murali Krishna Brahmandam AND Chief Secretary & OthersCase No: WP 23824/2025Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 268The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 1 Lakh on a litigant seeking direction to various government departments to discuss 'Karnataka Government Transformation Bill 2025' which was drafted by him.A division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Ramchandra D Huddar while dismissing a petition filed by one Murali Krishna Brahmandam said PIL (jurisdiction) is not for litigants to vent their ideas, however bright they may be.The petitioner who claimed to be a political economist had approached the court seeking a direction to all the concerned principal secretaries, secretaries, and special secretaries of the 34 ministries and their 44 departments of Karnataka to discuss and propose the Karnataka Government Transformation Bill, 2025, which was drafted by him.'How Can We Compel State?' High Court Rejects PIL Questioning Karnataka Govt's Decision To Stall National Education PolicyCase Title: Girish Bharadwaj & ANR AND State of Karnataka & Others Case No: WP 5838/2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 269The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (August 12) dismissed a PIL challenging Congress-led State government's 2023 decision to stall implementation of the Centre's National Education Policy 2020.A division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Ramchandra D Huddar observed that it cannot intervene in matters of policy unless the Petitioner establishes violation of any Fundamental/ statutory rights.“How can we direct the government to follow a particular policy and not to follow...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: August 11 To August 17, 2025

Mustafa Plumber

Tags