Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: March 17 To March 23, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 105 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 116Nominal Index:RAHUL SIVASANKAR AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 105Karnataka Hire Purchase Association AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 106Savitha Gowda AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 107PADMA MALINI G. RAO & ANR AND RAVI KARUMBAIAH. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 108Avinash AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 109Bherya Primary Agriculture Credit Coopearative Society Ltd AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 110KARNATAKA KARMIKARA VEDIKE AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 111Saraswathi Prakash & Others AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 112S Laxmi & Other And THE ADDL. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 113The PR. Commissioner of Income Tax v. Waterline Hotels Pvt. Ltd. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 114The State Of Karnataka v. Tractor And Farm Equipment Limited. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 115G. Linganagouda v. General Manager, Karnataka Gramina Bank. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 116Judgments/OrdersKarnataka High Court Quashes FIR Against Journalist Rahul Sivasankar Over Tweet On Religious Minorities Fund AllocationCase Title: RAHUL SIVASANKAR AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT & ANRCase No: CRL.P 2457/2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 105The Karnataka High Court on Monday (March 17) allowed TV journalist Rahul Shivshankar's plea seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him for his tweet about the State government's allocation of funds for welfare of religious minorities.Justice M Nagaprasanna while pronouncing the order said that the petition has been allowed and the FIR has been quashed.On February 13, the court had reserved its judgment in Sivasankar's plea after hearing the parties. Advocate Bipin Hegde appearing for Shivshankar had then submitted, “I have not given a false statement in the tweet, what is mentioned in the budget I have stated milords.”"Taken Birth From Womb Of Social Justice": Karnataka HC Upholds Validity Of Micro Loan & Small Loan (Prevention Of Coercive Actions) OrdinanceCase Title: Karnataka Hire Purchase Association AND State of KarnatakaCase No: WP 6962 of 2025.Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 106The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed seeking to declare the Karnataka Micro Loan and Small Loan (Prevention of Coercive Actions) Ordinance, 2025 as unconstitutional, arbitrary and beyond the legislative competence of the state government.Justice M Nagaprasanna upheld the ordinance saying “The Ordinance, conceived in response to the anguished cries of the vulnerable – farmers, women, workers, marginalized groups inter alia seeks to rescue them from usurious money lenders and micro finance entities who as public knowledge and legislative record bear testament, have wielded unconscionable recovery methods, often driving the debtors from buoyancy of hope, to the abyss of despair and death.”Karnataka HC Reprieve To Teacher Booked For Beating 6th Grader With Stick, Says No Proof Punishment Exceeded Child's Capacity To EndureCase Title: Savitha Gowda AND State of KarnatakaCase No: CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 2917 OF 2025Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 107The Karnataka High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings launched against a Physical Education teacher accused of beating a 6th grade school student with a stick, over alleged disobedience.While doing so Justice Hemant Chandangoudar cited Kerala High Court's decision in Rajan @ Raju v. Sub-Inspector of Police (Crl. MC. No. 237/2018), where it was held that parents are presumed to have given consent for their child to be subject to discipline and control of school authorities, including the imposition of a reasonable degree of force and punishment on a child old enough to understand the purpose of the act.Giving Notice To Tenant To Vacate Lease Premises Not Defamation: Karnataka High Court Quashes Case Against Senior Advocate Practising At SCCase Title: PADMA MALINI G. RAO & ANR AND RAVI KARUMBAIAHCase No: CRIMINAL PETITION No.4241 OF 2024 C/W CRIMINAL PETITION No.4250 OF 2024Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 108The Karnataka High Court has quashed defamation proceedings against a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court and his wife, over a complaint filed by their tenant after they sent a notice asking him to vacate their property.Noting that defamation requires an intention to harm the reputation of a person, Justice M Nagaprasanna observed that initiating legal proceedings against a party would not constitute defamation merely because the proceedings ended in favour of that party.The Court stated “What would unmistakably emerge is, that dragging the complainant into litigation or the complainant dragging the petitioners into litigation on several grievances, grounds or allegations would constitute legal proceedings between the two, which would not and cannot be said to be defamatory, merely because the case has gone in favour of the complainant. It would have been altogether a different...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: March 17 To March 23, 2025

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