Where does the right of police personnel to organise end and the need for a politically neutral force begin? A public interest litigation before the Kerala High Court seeks guidelines for police associations, to protect police discipline, political neutrality and impartial administration of criminal justice. Kochi: Citing concerns over political interference in the police force, […]
Six weeks: that is the time the State has been given to appoint POCSO Special Prosecutors who will work on POCSO cases alone, after the Kerala High Court struck down a Government Order that let them take up other matters as well. Ernakulam: Setting aside a Government Order that allowed Special Public Prosecutors appointed for […]
Former Director General of Police Tomin Thachankary need not serve his four-year sentence while his appeal is pending, the Kerala High Court has ruled; the disproportionate assets conviction itself remains in place until the appeal is decided. Kochi: Allowing a plea by former Director General of Police Tomin J. Thachankary, the Kerala High Court on […]
Trivial corrective measures used to keep order in a classroom do not call for criminal action unless they are inflicted with mala fide intent, the Kerala High Court has held, ending a case over a pulled hand. Kochi: A school teacher accused of corporal punishment will not face trial. The Kerala High Court has quashed […]
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has reserved its verdict on appeals in the CMRL-Exalogic Case but declined to stay, for now, a Single Bench direction to register a vigilance FIR; the allegations are untested. Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday refused to grant an interim stay of a Single Bench judgment […]
The Division Bench held that the Municipality’s approval is not a statutory requirement for introducing co-education and that the power rests exclusively with the Director of Education under Rule 12 of Chapter VI of the Kerala Education Rules. It ordered status quo until the Single Bench decides the writ petition on merits. Ernakulam: The Kerala […]
The Kerala High Court has directed the State to disburse the unpaid balance of post-surgery aid to a transgender petitioner within two months, closing a writ petition over a 2018 government order. Ernakulam: The Kerala High Court has disposed of a writ petition by a transgender person with a direction to the Director of the […]
