NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday impressed upon constitutional court judges to be aware of their predispositions and exercise restraint to be able to remain faithful to their fundamental obligations to deliver objective and fair justice without making observations appearing to be misogynistic or hurtful towards certain communities.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday admonished Karnataka HC‘s Justice V Srishananda for his controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality as “Pakistan” and his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer, but spared him of further embarrassment by closing suo motu proceedings as he had tendered an open court apology.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda’s purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court Monday asked a special court hearing private complaints against CM Siddaramaiah in the alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) site allotment controversy, to defer its proceedings and not to take any precipitative action till the next date of hearing on August 29.Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this interim order after the…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has granted bail for 16 days to a 23-year-old man arrested under Pocso Act, allowing him to marry an 18-year-old girl he has been accused of raping and with whom he fathered a child when she was a minor.Treating it as a “peculiar” case, Justice M Nagaprasanna has directed authorities to release…
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka CM and BJP veteran BS Yediyurappa said he will appear before CID on June 17 for an inquiry, following his return to Bengaluru Saturday. His statement came a day after Karnataka HC stayed a non-bailable warrant against him, in connection with a Pocso case.“I had gone to Delhi for a pre-scheduled event….
New Delhi: Fifteen years after the law was amended to include international workers within the ambit of employees’ provident fund and pension scheme, the Karnataka HC has struck down the provisions as “unconstitutional and arbitrary”.The move, which is likely to be challenged by govt and the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), will impact thousands of…
The petitioners were accused of attacking Randeep Das, a security guard employed by CKC & Sons showroom at Shivajinagar in Bengaluru, and some labourers working on their compound wall on April 29, 2023. Both sides indulged in verbal and physical fights, during which Vidya allegedly used pepper spray. Rejecting the right to private defence invoked…
