Asking why its members were staying away from the Crime Branch probe into alleged irregularities in a State Planning Board recruitment exam, the Kerala High Court told the Public Service Commission that it was being called to give information, not as an accused. Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Monday questioned the Kerala Public Service […]
The Kerala High Court has declared a wife the exclusive owner of 7 cents of land and a two-storey house at Manjeri, bought in the joint names of the spouses with her father’s money, and directed the husband to vacate within three months, while rejecting her claim for 80 sovereigns of gold, Rs 3.35 lakh and past maintenance and the husband’s counterclaim.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has disposed of a devotee’s 2021 petition over Halal-labelled jaggery used for Sabarimala prasadam, finding from laboratory reports that the jaggery was of satisfactory quality, but saying that the Travancore Devaswom Board ought to have been more careful about markings that could raise an apprehension of conflict with the Temple’s customs. The Board has been directed to exercise due care and to add suitable conditions to its e-tender documents.
The Kerala High Court has dismissed a plea by an Indian citizen and his Pakistani wife seeking an opportunity to apply for an Indian visa, holding that no foreign national, even a spouse of an Indian, has a right to have a visa application processed while the April 2025 suspension of visa services to Pakistani nationals remains in force.
The Kerala High Court has quashed a case under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act against a man who shared a photo holding the National Flag with the saffron colour facing down, holding that intention is essential and that a mistake is no offence, while ruling that a private WhatsApp group with many members is a place within public view.
The Kerala High Court has declined to grant interim relief to the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy over seven documentaries withheld from its documentary festival, observing that, prima facie, there is no arbitrariness or unreasonableness in withholding seven of 346 films, and has listed the case for November 13.
The Kerala High Court has dismissed a plea by the accused in the Shuhaib murder case to transfer the trial out of the Additional Sessions Court-III, Thalassery, while directing the trial court to ensure that both sides get a full and effective opportunity to participate, including cross-examination of witnesses.
Most POCSO courts in the State do not conform to the guidelines under the POCSO Act and have inadequate facilities, the Kerala High Court observed after inspecting district courts, directing the State to ensure conformity and to disclose how many additional POCSO courts are needed, and taking up the mandate for exclusive Public Prosecutors. Kochi: […]
The Kerala High Court has directed the Bar Council of Kerala to update, within eight weeks, its list of advocates who have not cleared the All India Bar Examination, extending it to enrolments from 2021 onwards, and to publish the list and continue reviewing defaults. The direction follows a PIL flagging an RTI reply that disclosed over 1,150 advocates in Kerala who had not passed the AIBE. District Judges are to be intimated and act accordingly.
The Kerala High Court has granted the State four weeks to fill the post of Chief Investigating Officer in the State Police Complaints Authority, an independent body constituted under the Kerala Police Act to examine complaints against police officers. The direction came in a PIL over the Authority’s effective functioning and the long-pending non-appointment of an independent investigator, despite earlier directions to do so within 60 days back in 2022.