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The Kerala High Court upheld a brown sugar conviction under Section 21(b) of the NDPS Act, ruling Section 50 inapplicable where contraband was recovered from a plastic bag, not a body search.
A daughter who has waited over a decade for a Junior Assistant post under the Compassionate Employment Scheme wins a direction from the Kerala High Court to force a cadre review and seniority-based appointment.
The Kerala High Court quashed a District Police Chief's finding that a trainee employee was "not suitable for appointment" solely because a motor vehicle accident case was pending against him.
The Kerala High Court found that waste cleared pursuant to its November 2025 direction had re-accumulated along the Kochi-Panavel Highway and near a railway overbridge, prompting fresh mandatory directions to the Kochi Municipal Corporation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has directed the Director of Devaswom Audit to personally appear and account for audit objections from 2008-09 that remain unresolved in 2026.
The Kerala High Court found the Vigilance Bureau's recommendation to drop charges against 41 of 43 accused incongruous with its own findings of entrustment and loss.
Only the sibling who proved she lived with and relied on the deceased pensioner qualifies for loss of dependency; the other four adult siblings living separately do not.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench held that the Malabar Devaswom Board's indefinite appointment of an Executive Officer displaced the hereditary trustee's rights and violated the temple's 1966 scheme.
Seven foreign crew members of the sunken vessel MSC Elsa 3, stranded in Kochi, asked the Kerala High Court to release their passports and let them leave India.
Justice C.S. Dias stayed proceedings in a Fort Kochi crime after finding that the Aircraft Act, 1934 was repealed from 1 January 2025 and the accused were charged under a law no longer in force.
The Kerala High Court dismissed a wife's appeal against an ex parte divorce decree, finding postal and oral evidence conclusively proved she had received court notices despite her forgery allegation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court granted interim custody to a mother after an unidentified lawyer entered the court hall and told her six-year-old son that his father was waiting, visibly traumatising the child.
The High Court of Kerala confirmed a three-year sentence under Section 7 read with Section 8 of the POCSO Act, rejecting eight grounds of appeal including a constitutional challenge to the Act's age threshold.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed a writ appeal by Puthur Service Co-operative Bank, holding that Consumer Protection Act forums retain jurisdiction over deposit disputes even where the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act provides its own remedy.
The Kerala High Court directed a Panchayat to correct a birth certificate left blank at birth, holding that procedural gaps in the Registration of Births and Deaths Act cannot override a child's constitutional right to identity.
Kerala High Court quashes rejection of a father's guardianship application for his daughter with Down Syndrome, holding the condition falls within the National Trust Act's definition of mental retardation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed a writ appeal by three children seeking burial of their deceased mother, upholding her written consent under Section 4A of the Kerala Anatomy Act, 1957.
The Kerala High Court granted transit anticipatory bail to a Muslim man and his Hindu wife, shielding them from arrest under a Madhya Pradesh FIR alleging kidnapping, pending their approach to the jurisdictional court.
Kerala High Court holds that a charge-sheet e-filed at 6:02 PM on the sixtieth day falls outside the statutory period, entitling accused to default bail under Section 187 BNSS.
Justice Jobin Sebastian posted the civil contempt case to 30 June 2026 after the Public Prosecutor sought time to verify whether the court's earlier order had been obeyed.
A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Soumen Sen ordered a child's immediate return to his mother after the father removed him from school in breach of a Family Court custody decree.
Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan held that a Grama Panchayat cannot await owner identification before removing wild vegetation that creates a snakebite hazard for neighbouring residents.
