Karnataka High Court News

The Karnataka High Court Tuesday rejected a plea by former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, his son Harshanand, and personal secretary Thipperudra seeking to scrap a chargesheet filed against them in the 2023 Aland 'vote theft' case. A bench directed the accused to a

An estranged spouse cannot take shelter under the norm of best interest of the child to unilaterally take custody of a minor from the other parent and transfer them to another school without a court order, the Karnataka High Court has held. Justice Dr Chillaku

Calling it a calculated assault on public health , the Karnataka High Court has refused to set aside a cheating case against a company accused of re-labelling expired food products and reselling them as fresh. It held that it was not merely a food-safety viola

More than half of the 45,000 pending second appeals under the Right to Information Act in Karnataka were filed by nine people whom the state information commission has subsequently blacklisted, the Karnataka High Court was informed on Wednesday. As the court h

The Karnataka High Court Tuesday refused to quash an alleged rape case against a 28-year-old man who claimed that the sexual relationship with the complainant was consensual, holding that whether consent was given or forcibly obtained was a disputed question o

Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy urged Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to take over the NICE project. He called for an immediate halt to unauthorized toll collection on Bengaluru's NICE roads

The Karnataka High Court has refused to discharge Congress leader Sirajuddin alias Siraj Sheik in an alleged case of hurling casteist abuses at party colleague and former MLA Bhima Naik. Dismissing Sheik s plea challenging a trial court order, Justice M Nagapr

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea filed by Ramesh Budihal, the only Indian to have won an Asian Surfing Championship medal, challenging the Surfing Federation of India s decision to select him only as the first reserve in the me

The central government on Tuesday said that a woman can use her husband s sperm for an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure only with his consent and cannot use donor sperm unless the husband is proved infertile. The submission was made in the Karnataka High

The Karnataka High Court last week granted bail to a 65-year-old woman advocate who is accused of taking money from a murder accused s mother on the pretext of bribing a judge to secure bail. Advocate Marina Fernandes, who has been in custody for over a year s

The Karnataka Lokayukta police, investigating a disproportionate assets case against former minister Zameer Ahmed Khan, have sought Governor Thawarchand Gehlot s sanction to prosecute him under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Lokayukta police wrote to th

The state government Monday informed the Karnataka High Court that it will soon pass a resolution allocating Bangalore Turf Club land for the construction of a new high court building. Advocate General Shashi Kiran Shetty informed the high court about the gove

The Karnataka High Court has sought responses from state and election bodies. A petition questions the State Election Commission's parallel voter revision process

The Karnataka High Court Tuesday refused to cancel a 2017 criminal case against former minister Chowda Reddy and former Chintamani town municipality commissioner B H Narayanappa, both accused of illegally usurping government land. Coming down heavily on the ac

The Karnataka High Court on Monday stayed an order of deportation by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Bengaluru, involving a man detained as an alleged Bangladeshi national, after he claimed he is an Indian citizen by birth and a victim of m

The Karnataka High Court recently observed that an adult cannot be considered to be in the custody of their parents or be subjected to matrimonial disputes between them, and is entitled to exercise the fundamental right to travel independently under Article 21

The Karnataka High Court recently set aside an order of a family court granting child visitation rights to a father and permitted the mother to have full custody of the minor. In an order dated June 29, Justice P Sree Sudha said, When he (father) avoids duty

The Karnataka High Court Friday refused to pass an interim order on a plea challenging the implementation of the Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Act, which is likely to cover around four lakh gig workers employed by various p

The Karnataka High Court Thursday cancelled a criminal case registered by a hospital against a Bengaluru-based oncologist over allegedly forging a signature on an experience certificate. Justice M Nagaprasanna, while allowing the petition filed by the doctor