Mere Acceptance Of Guilt By Owner/ Driver Of Offending Vehicle No Ground To Grant Compensation To Claimant: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that when an application is filed under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, it is for the claimant to prove their case by adducing independent evidence. Mere acceptance of guilt by the owner/driver of the offending vehicle can never be a ground for the tribunal to come to a conclusion, it held.A single judge bench of Justice Lalitha Kanneganti thus...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: November 6 To 12, 2023

Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 420 To 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 429Nominal Index:Dr Uday Mulgund And State of Karnataka & Others. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 420B Narayana & Others AND State Of Karnataka & Others. 2023 (Kar) LiveLaw 421Manjula @ Manju And The Chief Secretary & Others. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 422Ashok M.S & Others And The Anti Corruption Bureau & Others. 2023 LiveLaw...

Karnataka High Court Dismisses Challenge To Re-Exam For Police Sub-Inspectors Recruitment

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the re-exam for the recruitment of 545 police sub-inspectors. The court has directed the state government to conduct the re-examination through an independent agency, without charging any fresh fee to the candidates.A division bench of Justice P S Dinesh Kumar and Justice T G Shivashaker Gowda dismissed the petitions....

Loss Of Job No Ground To Not Pay Maintenance To Estranged Wife U/S 24 Hindu Marriage Act: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has rejected the petition filed by a husband challenging the interim maintenance granted to his estranged wife on the ground that he lost his job.A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna said,“The submission of the learned counsel that the husband has lost his job and cannot be directed to pay maintenance is noted only to be rejected, as the husband being...

Karnataka HC Pulls Up Milk Producers Federation For "Shunting" Reserved Category Candidate Sans Opportunity To Rectify Social Status Certificate

The Karnataka High Court recently pulled up the Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited for "shunting" a reserved category candidate to the general seat merely because the Social Status Certificate which he had uploaded with the application was not clearly visible.A division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Krishna S Dixit said a simple intimation to...

Karnataka HC Grants Bail To Muruga Mutt Seer In POCSO Case, Says No Adverse Inference Of Influencing Witnesses By Virtue Of His Position

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday granted bail to pontiff of Murugha Mutt of Chitradurga, Dr. Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru, accused of sexually abusing two minor girls staying in the hostels run by the Mutt. The seer was arrested under POCSO Act after the girls approached a Mysuru-based NGO Odanadi Seva Samsthe seeking help.A single judge bench of Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar said...

Direct Private Buses To Install Audio Announcement Systems To Aid Visually Impaired Travellers: Karnataka High Court To State

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday suggested the State Government to issue a circular directing private bus operators to install audio announcement system service in their buses which would be of assistance to physically challenged and visually impaired persons. A division bench Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Krishna S Dixit while hearing a PIL moved by N Shreyas, a...

Karnataka High Court Order Restoring The Liver Doctor's X Account To Continue Till Trial Court's Decision On Himalaya's Plea For Interim Injunction

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday disposed of the petition filed by Dr Cyriac Abby Philips who operates the widely popular X handle '@theliverdr', challenging an ex-parte order passed by the trial court suspending his X account. The trial court had passed the order on a suit filed by Himalaya Wellness Corporation which alleged that he made defamatory allegations against the company...

Parents Forgive Children's Misdeeds Until It Becomes Unbearable: Karnataka HC Rejects Daughter's Plea Against Cancellation Of Father's Gift Deed

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by the daughter of an aged couple seeking to reverse the order of the single judge which had in turn upheld the order of the Assistant Commissioner, Tumkur, cancelling the gift deed executed by her father in her favour."Which father and mother will come and say? Unless it is unbearable for them...." a division bench of Chief...

Karnataka High Court Rejects PIL To Remove Visvesvaraya Technological University VC Citing Lack Of Petitioners' Bonafide

The Karnataka High Court has said that a petitioner who invokes PIL jurisdiction, more particularly with a prayer for a Writ of Quo Warranto, has to approach the court with ‘clean heart, clean mind and clean objective'.A division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Krishna S Dixit made the observation while dismissing two "identical" petitions filed by Professor B Shivraj...

S.17A PC Act | Prior Approval Must When No 'Demand' Made By Accused Public Servant But Money Is Accepted Or Thrust Upon Him: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has allowed the petitions filed by officials of the Commercial Tax Department and quashed proceedings initiated against them under the Prevention of Corruption Act by Karnataka Lokayukta, based on sting operations carried out by media houses. However, it refused to obliterate the proceedings initiated against traffic police personnel who permitted heavy vehicles...

Karnataka High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea To Frame 'Best Practices' For Determining Child Custody Matters

The Karnataka High Court on Monday issued notices to the Union and State Government on a suo-motu petition for guidelines to be followed while determining issues of child custody. A division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Krishna S Dixit directed the respondents to file their reply within 3 weeks and also permitted amicus curiae Dhyan Chinnappa to file any suggestion to...