Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: March 10 To March 16, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 94 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 104Nominal Index:Vinod Kumar M N AND Union of India & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 94Devendra Bhatia AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 95B C Prasad & ANR AND The District Registrar And Deputy Commissioner of Stamps & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 96Ismail Jabiulla & ANR AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 97Prabhu Haveri AND The Commissioner For Social Welfare And Appellate Authority & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 98Arthi B AND Karnataka State Law University & OThers. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 99Munirathna AND State Of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 100H Sanna Devanna & ANR AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 101Moulali Challal AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 102 M.A.DHAVALESHWAR AND THE STATE OF KARNATAKA & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 103Ramesh Karoshi AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 104Judgments/Orders'Covid-19 Has Subsided And Vaccines Have Become Unnecessary Today': Karnataka High Court Disposes Man's Plea For Second DoseCase Title: Vinod Kumar M N AND Union of India & OthersCase No: WP 257/2022Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 94The Karnataka High Court on Monday (March 10) disposed of a 2022 petition filed by one Vinod Kumar M N seeking a direction to the authorities to give him a second dose of Covid vaccine.A single judge, Justice M Nagaprasanna said “The petitioner is before this court seeking a direction for a second dose of covid vaccine, the covid-19 has subsided and vaccines have become unnecessary today. Therefore the petition is disposed of as having become unnecessary.”Karnataka High Court Declines To Quash Murder Case Filed By Son Against Father Over Death Of Mother Who Fell From 16th Floor ApartmentCase Title: Devendra Bhatia AND State of Karnataka & OthersCase No: WRIT PETITION No.19567 OF 2023Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 95The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash murder proceedings initiated by a man against his father after his mother died by falling from their apartment situated on the 16th floor.Justice M Nagaprasanna while dismissing the petition filed by Devendra Bhatia said “When the evidence of both the children as quoted hereinabove would pin the petitioner down albeit, prima facie, it is ununderstandable as to how this Court would exercise its jurisdiction under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. on an offence under Section 302 of the IPC against the accused and obliterate the trial. If the children have complained against the petitioner narrating vivid details, it becomes a matter for a full-blown trial, where the petitioner has to come out clean.”Recovery Of Stamp Duty Not Levied Or Short Levied Can Be Done Only Within Five Years After Registration Of Documents: Karnataka HCCase Title: B C Prasad & ANR AND The District Registrar And Deputy Commissioner of Stamps & OthersCase No: WRIT PETITION NO. 41844 OF 2017Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 96The Karnataka High Court has reiterated that proceedings by way of show cause notice under Section 46A of the Karnataka Stamps Act for recovery of stamp duty not levied or short levied cannot be initiated five years after the registration of the document, being the date on which the stamp duty fell due.Justice Suraj Govindaraj said this while allowing a petition filed by B C Prasad challenging an order passed by the Karnataka Appellate Tribunal (KAT), which upheld the order of the Registrar dated 30-10-2010, directing the petitioner to remit a shortfall in the stamp duty of Rs.98,500 on the documents registered in the year 1995.Probe By Police Before Lodging FIR Is Illegal: Karnataka HC Quashes Case Against Two Accused Of Illegally Transporting Cattle For SlaughterCase Title: Ismail Jabiulla & ANR AND State of Karnataka & ANRCase No: CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 566 OF 2025Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 97The Karnataka High Court has quashed a case registered against two persons accused of illegally transporting cattle for slaughter, who were charged on the basis of a confessional statement given by the co-accused.Justice Hemant Chandangoudar allowed the petition filed by Ismail Jabiulla and another and quashed the case registered against them under Sections 4, 6, 7, 8, and 12(2) of the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Ordinance, 2020, read with provisions of the Transportation of Animals Act and Sections 181(3) and 177 of the Indian Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, along with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).Caste Certificate Issued After Verification Can't Be Invalidated Merely Because Sibling Seeks Scholarship Under Different Caste: Karnataka HCCase Title: Prabhu Haveri AND The Commissioner For Social Welfare And Appellate Authority & Others.Case No: WRIT PETITION No.104264 OF 2021 Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 98The Karnataka High Court has observed that the action of a sibling in securing a scholarship under the Backward Class Category cannot invalidate the caste certificate issued to another...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: March 10 To March 16, 2025

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