The Latest Breaking News from The High Court of Karnataka

What a section of the police personnel allegedly did was absolutely unacceptable to this court and to the civil society, to say the least, said the High Court of Karnataka, while expressing anguish over the incident in which a group of police personnel resorted to a demonstration on the streets…

The construction of a bridge over a rajakaluve (storm-water drain) to connect private properties on either side of the drain, cannot be termed as an encroachment, said the High Court of Karnataka

The State government on Wednesday informed the High Court of Karnataka that the Transport Commissioner on December 1 held a meeting with the representatives of the HSRP Manufacturers’ Association of India and various individual manufacturers of high-security registration plates (HSRP) on fixing HSRP to old vehicles registered in the State…

Censuring the State government for causing a large number of litigations related to civil contracts across Karnataka, owing to a lack of clarity and confusion in policies and circulars issued in 2022, the High Court of Karnataka has advised the government to ensure that policies are not in conflict with…

Changing the law interpreted in its three earlier judgments, in which it was held that pendency of a criminal case would not come in the way of renewal or re-issue of regular passport that was already issued, the High Court of Karnataka said when the law bars issuance of regular…

The High Court of Karnataka has directed the State government to issue necessary guidelines to assign reason for posting an officer belong to the lower cadre to posts designated for the officers of higher grade before seeking approval for such postings or transfers.

The relationship by marriage does not eclipse the right to privacy under the Aadhaar Act, and the personal data of information of one of the spouses stored in Aadhaar cannot be disclosed at the instance of other spouse without hearing the spouse whose information is sought by the other spouse,…

The conduct of the judge of the special court for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases in Chitradurga district in issuing non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, seer of Murugarajendra Bruhan Mutt, “amounts to contempt of court for blatantly violating High Court’s orders”, observed the High…

Finding illegalities by way of violation of the court’s orders in the arrest of Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, seer of Murugarajendra Bruhan Mutt, Chitradurga, on Monday afternoon in the second case of sexual assault, the High Court of Karnataka on Monday evening ordered his immediate release from prison.

The obligation of children to look after their parents during the evening of their life becomes more vigorous when the children have got the property of the parents through gift, said the High Court of Karnataka.

A retired professor and a former syndicate member of Mysore University “have not come to the court with clean hands, clean heart, and clean objective” as they had failed to disclose their correct credentials in their separate PIL petitions, in which they had questioned the legality of appointment of S.…