A 2018 complaint over an alleged 2007 incident, with no explanation for the 11-year delay, was an abuse of the process of law, the Karnataka High Court has held while quashing the SC/ST Act complaint against Baba Kalyani and two others. Bengaluru: A private complaint under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) […]
The SFIO Case Against Razorpay Directors Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar survives, with the Karnataka High Court telling them “It is for the petitioners to come out clean in a full-blown trial” and holding that whether they discharged their fiduciary duties in onboarding an allegedly Chinese-controlled lending platform is a disputed question of fact. Bengaluru: […]
The investigation into the alleged sale of pirated copies of late journalist Ravi Belagere’s novel can now proceed, with the Karnataka High Court refusing to quash the FIR Against Amazon. Bengaluru: Having stayed the investigation in May while the petition was pending, the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday, November 4, dismissed a petition by Amazon […]
The Karnataka High Court has quashed the BJP’s Defamation Case Against Former CM Siddaramaiah over the Congress party’s 2023 “Corruption Rate Card” newspaper advertisements, ending the proceedings against him alone, as the other accused’s petitions were not the subject of the order. Bengaluru: Siddaramaiah’s criminal petition succeeded on Wednesday, November 4, when the Karnataka High […]
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 […]
Seven FIRs over one incident, and a news report reposted on X: the Karnataka High Court has issued six guidelines against mechanical arrests and repeat FIRs over social media posts, saying that registration of a crime must not automatically lead to arrest, and has quashed the Puttur case against the account’s administrator. Bengaluru: Crime No. […]
Karnataka High Court Quashes FIR against the administrator of an X account for reposting a news report on an alleged stalking incident in Puttur, and directs the police to stop mechanical registration of FIRs and arrests over social media posts. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed an FIR registered under Section 353(2) of the […]