The Karnataka High Court has quashed POCSO and IPC proceedings against a father, holding that no material supported the accusation and that the complaint followed a setback in custody proceedings, and has partly quashed a related dowry harassment case, sparing the husband’s parents but not the husband.
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash an FIR alleging cheating and criminal conspiracy over Rs 21.35 lakh said to have been paid to resolve pending property litigation, holding that a plea that the dispute is civil does not by itself end a criminal case, and directing a proper and in-depth investigation.
The Karnataka High Court has upheld a trial court’s order allowing a plaintiff to amend her plaint, holding that an amendment that only clarifies the existing cause of action, without changing the nature of the suit or setting up a new case, and which causes no prejudice to the other side, is to be allowed liberally to avoid multiplicity of litigation. The Court declined to interfere in its supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227.
The Karnataka High Court has quashed domestic violence proceedings against a woman’s elderly parents-in-law, holding that, in the absence of specific allegations of domestic violence against them, continuing the case would be an abuse of process. The Court, however, allowed the proceedings and an order of Rs 7,000 monthly interim maintenance to continue against the husband, finding sufficient material and that the wife was unable to maintain herself.
Educated persons are expected to be role models who resolve their differences with dignity and restraint, the Karnataka High Court observed, while confirming a divorce, the dismissal of the wife’s plea for restitution of conjugal rights, and Rs 50 lakh permanent alimony, in cross-appeals by an estranged couple. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has dismissed […]
A WhatsApp status, visible only to one’s contacts, is not a “publication or circulation” and does not by itself attract the offence of promoting enmity between communities under Section 505(2) IPC, the Karnataka High Court held, quashing an FIR over a post uploaded after the 2024 Lok Sabha result. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has […]
The Karnataka High Court has deferred, by three weeks, a PIL challenging the State government’s September 8 order limiting the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at government functions, after the State pointed out that a related matter, TM Krishna’s challenge to the Centre’s Vande Mataram circular and the 2026 amendment, is pending before the Supreme Court. The petitioner argued that a State cannot decide the content of a national song; the State defended the order as guidance, not a mandate.
A same-sex couple has asked the Karnataka High Court to read the word ‘spouse’ in the Income Tax Act’s gift-exemption provision to include them, after one partner’s gift of a gold-bracelet heirloom to the other was treated as taxable income. The Centre has opposed the plea, arguing that ‘spouse’ takes its meaning from a legally recognised marriage, that the classification rests on marital status rather than sexual orientation, and that recognising same-sex marriage was left by the Supreme Court to Parliament.
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed as infructuous the anticipatory bail plea of an advocate accused in a ‘cash-for-bail’ case, after her counsel informed the Court that she had already been arrested. Days earlier, the Court had indicated it would not grant her anticipatory bail, observing that custodial interrogation was necessary. The allegation is that she sought money purportedly to bribe a High Court judge to secure a litigant’s son’s release. The allegations are untested.
A PIL before the Karnataka High Court challenges the State’s September 8 order restricting Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at most government programmes, arguing that prescribing the content of a national symbol falls within the Union’s exclusive competence and that the Cabinet decision was taken without a note, a sponsoring department or legal consultation. The petition does not seek to compel anyone to sing. The Court is expected to take it up shortly.