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…
Prajwal Revanna (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bail petition filed by suspended Janta Dal (S) leader Prajwal Revanna in connection with a case involving allegations of rape and sexual assault.A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma heard the case. During the hearing, senior Advocate Mukul…
BELAGAVI: Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) is resolute in its plans to hold a ‘black day’ rally Friday to coincide with Kannada Rajyotsava, raising concerns of potential clashes with law enforcement.Led by former MLA Manohar Kinekar and Deepak Dalavi, MES is urging Marathi-speaking people to join the silent protest, starting at Sambhaji Garden on Mahadwar Road,…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted interim bail for six weeks to jailed actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, prime accused in the Renukaswamy murder case.The bail was granted to the actor on medical grounds to undergo spine surgery. As per the bail condition, the actor has been asked to surrender his passport.Darshan is currently…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC acquitted Wednesday three convicts, one of them a Pakistani national, serving life sentences in a 2012 terror conspiracy case involving Lashkar.The division bench of Justices Sreenivas Harish Kumar and JM Khazi ruled that evidence produced by the prosecution against the trio — Syed Abdul Rehman of Bengaluru, Afsar Pasha of Chintamani in…
