Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: January 20 To January 26, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 17 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 27Nominal Index:Amrutha M & Others AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 17MD Imran Reza AND NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 18 Central Warehousing Corporation AND G C Bhat & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 19ABC AND XYZ. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 20 Shekhar AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 21The Income Tax Officer & ANR Preeti V. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 22K S Vishwa Kiran And State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 23Shipoil Limited AND MT Standorf. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 24B Ashok Kumar AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 25 The Registrar General AND Union of India & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 26Shilpa Kiran & ANR And State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 27Judgments/Orders"State Should Never Stifle Rights Of Poor": Karnataka HC Sets Aside Govt Order Reducing Education Assistance To Children Of Construction WorkersCase Title: Amrutha M & Others AND State of Karnataka & OthersCase No: WRIT PETITION No.9924 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 17The Karnataka High Court set aside a notification issued by the State Government in 2023, reducing the education assistance amount for children of registered construction workers for pursuing graduation and post-graduation courses.A single judge, Justice M Nagaprasanna observed “The state should never stifle or smother the rights of the poor. There is no reason whatsoever found in any of the justification projected by the State to do so. The State government must remember that it should take all steps towards educating women, as it is said, educating a man, is educating an individual; educating a woman, is educating a generation.”Karnataka HC Rejects PIL Claiming NoBroker Technologies Forces Employees To Surrender Their Digital Privacy, Snoops Their Personal BrowsingCase Title: MD Imran Reza AND NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt. LtdCase No: WRIT PETITION NO. 29555 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 18The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation filed claiming that NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt. Ltd forces its employees to surrender their digital privacy under the threat of losing access to work tools.A division bench of Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice M I Arun dismissed the petition filed by one MD Imran Reza stating, “This Court is not inclined to entertain the petition. Any individual violation of privacy rights may be a cause of action for initiating appropriate legal proceedings as may be permissible in law, in accordance with law.”Gratuity Cannot Be Forfeited For Employee Who Was Dismissed For Allegedly Misappropriating Funds Without Proper Proceedings: Karnataka HCCase Title: Central Warehousing Corporation AND G C Bhat & ANRCase No: WRIT PETITION NO.102635 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 19.The Karnataka High Court has held that in case no proceedings have been initiated against a delinquent employee for recovery of the alleged losses caused to the public institution due to their misappropriation, the question of the employer retaining the gratuity amount of the dismissed employee and forfeiting the same, would not arise.Justice Suraj Govindaraj held thus while dismissing the petition filed by Central Warehousing Corporation, which had challenged the order of the Controlling Authority. The authority while allowing the application filed by G C Bhat had directed the corporation to pay him a gratuity amount of Rs.7,88,165 with 10% interest from 12.12.2013, till the date of actual payment.Karnataka HC Declines Wife's Plea To Transfer Divorce Case, Says Safeguarding Women Is Admirable But Husband's Convenience Can't Be OverlookedCase Title: ABC AND XYZCase No: CIVIL PETITION NO. 370 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 20The Karnataka High Court has said that there should be a gender-neutral society which aims at preventing separation of duties according to sex or gender and the focus should be on equal treatment of men and women both in domestic affairs and workplaces.The court disallowed a plea for transfer of a divorce petition filed by the wife and stated that the husband's convenience cannot be overlooked. Only because the transfer petition is moved by a woman, transfer of the case as sought cannot be effected, it said.Duty Of Deed Writers To Look Into All Papers Before Scribing A Deed, Which Includes Investigating Title Over Property: Karnataka HCCase Title: Shekhar AND State of Karnataka & ANRCase No: CRIMINAL PETITION No.9546 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 21The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a criminal case registered against a licensed deed writer accused of writing an agreement for the sale of a land based on a general power attorney (GPA) which was allegedly a forged one.Justice M Nagaprasanna dismissed the petition filed by one Shekar and said “Merely because he is a deed writer, the proceedings against him cannot be quashed, as the offence of forgery and using...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: January 20 To January 26, 2025

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