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A Dharwad Division Bench found, prima facie, that a 1935 court-framed scheme under Section 92 CPC survives the HRICE Act until formally modified by the Deputy Commissioner.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a Family Court order that had dismissed the mother's plea, directed the father to produce the child before court on 25 August 2026, and imposed Rs 5 lakh costs for violating judicial orders and the child's basic human rights.
Karnataka High Court dismisses a husband's revision against a Family Court maintenance order, rejecting his claim that his wife left home without permission as grounds to deny her upkeep.
The Karnataka High Court held that a civic authority cannot demand free land for road widening as a post-facto condition for granting an occupancy certificate when no such requirement existed at the building licence stage.
Applying Section 497 of the BNSS for the first time in the context of a cyber-fraud search and seizure, the Karnataka High Court directed a Bengaluru magistrate to decide a pending custody application within one week.
Petitioners from the Mysore and Sandur royal families sought deletion of Section 5(ii) of the Hindu Succession Act as unconstitutional; the Karnataka High Court dismissed the challenge, relying on Supreme Court precedent.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a 2023 government notification re-appointing Sri Sadashiva Murthy as Special Public Prosecutor in the Fr Thomas K.J. murder case, citing non-application of mind and an impermissible direct-payment arrangement with the complainant Seminary.
The Dharwad Bench held that a landowner cannot be tried for culpable negligence causing death merely because the fatal electric wire passed through her property.
Two accused arrested for assaulting a Tumakuru lodge owner over his establishment's name following an IPL match win bail from the Karnataka High Court.
A Division Bench at Bengaluru set aside a Single Judge order that had quashed the Health Officer's NOC requirement, holding public safety outweighs private trading interest.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna holds that a writ petition under Article 226 read with Section 482 CrPC challenging ED search and freezing of 106 bank accounts is perfectly maintainable before a criminal roster bench.
A Karnataka High Court Division Bench reinstated the suspension of a SIMS Associate Professor facing two proven sexual harassment complaints, faulting both the institution's Director and the Principal Secretary for shielding him.
Justice H.P. Sandesh found the accused had made the complainant appear 12 times for cross-examination without ever questioning him, then filed a complaint against his own advocate.
Karnataka High Court directs Google and Indian Kanoon to mask the name of a woman acquitted in 2019, holding that a final acquittal obliges digital repositories to reflect judicial vindication.
The Karnataka High Court found the police confined the charge solely to attempt to murder, overlooking graphic allegations of attempted rape narrated under Section 164 of the Cr.P.C.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed Bosch Automotive's writ petition against a strike notice, holding that a trade union is not amenable to Article 226 but the Industrial Tribunal has limited jurisdiction during conciliation.
Justice S Vishwajith Shetty dismissed bail for Sidul Mandal, a Bangladesh national charged with facilitating fake identity documents for illegal immigrants, observing the conduct prima facie endangers national sovereignty.
Karnataka High Court quashes a Section 353 IPC charge sheet, holding that fleeing from police asking for vehicle documents cannot constitute criminal force against a public servant.
A Division Bench set aside a Single Judge order that had quashed seizure of a Rs. 1.97 crore SUV re-registered at a fraction of its value, evading over Rs. 78 lakh in road tax.
A Karnataka High Court Division Bench has dismissed writ appeals filed by NICE and KIADB, affirming that landowners may challenge decades-long failure to pass compensation awards even after acquisition legality attained finality in the Supreme Court.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad quashed a bank's rejection of an engineering student's educational loan, holding that a parent's adverse credit history cannot be an absolute disqualification.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging a trial court's direction to Whitefield Police to implement a temporary injunction, rejecting res judicata and imposing costs of Rs. 50,000.
The Karnataka High Court ordered part-payment of admitted drug supply dues to M/s Sujal Pharma, while directing a time-bound inquiry into a separate disputed COVID-era sanitiser purchase.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna drew a precise legal line between orders restraining coercive steps and those restraining precipitative action, holding that only arrest — not attachment — was interdicted.
