Supreme Court quashes Bengaluru land acquisition made in 1988 for a cooperative housing society, holding that it was vitiated by fraud and that no approved housing scheme or layout existed, and directs that possession be restored to the landowners. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has quashed the acquisition of private land in Bengaluru for a […]
A car driven at a person can be “an instrument of death”, the Karnataka High Court has said in refusing to quash the attempt to murder case against a motorist accused of driving at a traffic policeman during a drunken-driving check. Bengaluru: A motorist accused of driving his car at a Head Constable on a […]
Rs 3.67 crore in special damages and a perjury complaint against two senior executives: a Bengaluru civil court has held the 2018 termination of a former Head of Health and Benefits at Willis Towers Watson India Insurance Brokers wrongful and retaliatory. Bengaluru: Holding that the employer’s own whistleblower policy limited its power to dismiss on […]
Archived court recordings cannot be claimed by a litigant as of right unless the Bench specifically orders it, the Karnataka High Court has held while dismissing a 72-year-old man’s challenge to the refusal of copies of recordings of his appeal hearing. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking copies of archived […]
Holding that the offence of sexual intercourse on a false promise of marriage under Section 69 BNS cannot be attracted against a woman accused on the allegations made, the Karnataka High Court has quashed that charge against a woman named as the second accused in an FIR, while allowing the investigation into the remaining allegations […]
The Karnataka High Court quashes protest case against 15 persons booked over a February 2016 gathering in Bengaluru after the death of Rohith Vemula, holding that nothing in the charge-sheet showed an unlawful assembly. Bengaluru: Exercising its inherent powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Karnataka High Court has quashed criminal […]
A Bengaluru special court has remanded Ozone Urbana Infra Developers managing director Vasudevan Satyamurthy to ED custody till October 14 in a money laundering case in which the agency alleges that about Rs 927.22 crore collected from homebuyers was diverted through group entities. The allegations are untested.
The Karnataka High Court has allowed the Union’s writ appeal over 3 acres 12 guntas at Sonnappanahalli near the Air Force Station, Yelahanka, holding that the Military Land Register is conclusive proof of Defence title and that a private buyer through a court-executed sale deed acquired no better title, and has restored the revenue orders in favour of the Defence Department.
