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Kerala HC Dismisses Union of India's Challenge to Disability Pension for Army Veteran's Widow, Holds Medical Board's Unreasoned Finding on Schizophrenia Unsustainable
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court upheld the Armed Forces Tribunal's grant of disability pension to the widow of an ex-serviceman invalided out with Schizophrenia, finding the medical board gave no reasons for its constitutional-origin finding.
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Kerala HC Stays Remand Order of Thalassery Sessions Court, Directs Immediate Release of 17 Accused
Finding the remand order ex facie illegal, Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath stayed the order without waiting for State instructions and directed the Additional Sessions Judge-III, Thalassery to release all 17 accused forthwith.
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Kerala HC Sets Aside Section 324 IPC Conviction Where No Charge Was Framed, Substitutes Section 323 Conviction
Justice Jobin Sebastian held that Section 324 IPC cannot be a minor offence of Section 332 IPC because both carry the same maximum punishment and their ingredients are not cognate.
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Kerala HC Directs Police to Aid Decree Execution After 40-Year Litigation, Overrides Technicality on Impleadment
A 1984 title suit decree, confirmed up to the Supreme Court, remained unexecuted due to third-party obstruction; the Kerala High Court invoked Article 227 to direct police assistance.
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Kerala HC Monitors Waste Management at Chottanikkara Temple; Complainant to Place Materials on 25 May
A Kerala High Court Division Bench tracking sanitation at Chottanikkara Bhagavathi Temple heard progress on a ₹20.7 lakh waste treatment project and directed the complainant to produce evidence of continuing lapses.
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Kerala HC Sentences 12 Accused to Life Imprisonment in Madhu Tribal Lynching Case, Applies SC/ST (PoA) Act's Mandatory Sentence
The Kerala High Court upgraded convictions in the 2018 Attappadi lynching death of Madhu, a tribal man, sentencing 12 accused to life imprisonment under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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Kerala HC Quashes RTI Order Directing KPSC to Disclose Disciplinary File Notings, Sets Aside Section 20(1) Penalty Proceedings
The Kerala High Court held that internal note files in disciplinary proceedings are personal information exempt from RTI disclosure, and that the State Information Commission's order directing blanket disclosure was legally unsustainable.
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Kerala High Court Weekly Round-Up: May 17 to 23, 2026
