BENGALURU: A transport constable, who was suspended from the state-owned Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KKRTC) for taking a 10-minute catnap after doing a 16-hour shift continuously for two months, has earned relief from Karnataka high court, which has quashed the suspension order issued by KKRTC.Justice M Nagaprasanna pointed out that the KKRTC management itself…
BENGALURU: In a major relief for chief minister Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathy, and others, the Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed the petition seeking to transfer the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) alternative sites allotment case involving them to a CBI probe.Snehamayi Krishna, one of the complainants in the case, had filed the petition. Justice…
NEW DELHI: Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya on Wednesday moved Karnataka high court challenging the debt recovery proceedings against him.Mallya in his petition, sought a statement by the banks of accounts for the amounts owed by him United Breweries Holdings Limited (in liquidation) and other certificate debtors.Justice R Devdas issued the notice to the to banks…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka HC stayed on Wednesday the investigation and further proceedings against Infosys co-founder and Indian Institute of Science governing council chairman Senapathy Kris Gopalakrishnan and 15 others in a complaint filed under provisions of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.Justice SR Krishna Kumar also directed the issuance of an emergent notice…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court rejected a petition to quash a dowry death case despite the victim’s suicide note not naming anyone.Justice M Nagaprasanna’s verdict, on plea filed by a Bengaluru man and his parents, cited prima facie evidence of harassment. Court said the victim’s final note cannot override substantive allegations of matrimonial cruelty. The victim…
BENGALURU: Consent for a sexual relationship with a man can never become licence for him to assault the woman, the Karnataka high court observed recently.Partly allowing a petition filed by the accused — a serving circle inspector of police, Justice M Nagaprasanna quashed the charge of repeated rape under IPC Section 376(2)(n) against him but…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court recently directed the state forest department to refund Rs 4.3 lakh deposited by a Kodagu landowner in 1982, with 6% interest per annum. The order came a year after his death in 2023.One Mahabaleshwar Bhat had deposited the amount after he was granted approval to fell 349 trees standing on the…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has stayed further proceedings against Telugu actor Kolla Hema in drug abuse case registered against her following a raid on a rave party in Bengaluru in May last year.Allowing the interlocutory application filed by Hema seeking a stay on proceedings, high court observed the petitioner was chargesheeted for offences punishable under…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has quashed proceedings against two persons accused of printing on a wedding invitation card a message calling upon people to vote for PM Modi in LS polls earlier this year. “The crime is recklessly registered, so is the chargesheet, on a reckless probe,” Justice M Nagaprasanna observed in his recent order.Bridegroom Shivaprasad,…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has brought the curtains down on what it said is, perhaps, “the oldest case in the criminal justice system in the state”, by quashing proceedings against a Bengaluru resident in a 45-year-old case.The man was charged with accompanying two men accused of murdering a person over a land dispute in Udupi in…
