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A Division Bench of Justices R Devdas and K Manmadha Rao quashed six Tribunal orders and directed the Transport Commissioner to issue appointment orders within two months.
Justices D.K. Singh and H. Shanthi Bhushan distinguish disciplinary dismissal from cessation of entitlement for want of a prescribed qualification, and make the institute pay for appointing an ineligible teacher.
Justice H.P. Sandesh quashes the summons in a software-copying complaint because the company was never arraigned, and lays down six propositions on what a Magistrate must do when a 'B' report is filed.
The contract said the employer would not be liable for overheads and profits whatever the cause of delay. Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice K.S. Hemalekha hold an arbitrator may interpret that clause but cannot neutralise it.
Land acquired for an Air Force station in 1943, a decree for specific performance in 2008, and a sale deed executed by a court commissioner in 2015. The Karnataka High Court restores the revenue authorities' orders.
The same two judges, on the same day, upheld one detention under the same Act and quashed this one. The difference is what the State did with the ordinary law before reaching for the extraordinary.
A writ court cannot sit as an appellate authority over a detaining officer's satisfaction. It can only ask whether the relevant material was considered — and the Karnataka High Court finds that it was.
Thirty-nine years after the first notification, the Karnataka High Court has set aside a Single Judge's order quashing the acquisition of about an acre and a half next to a DRDO artificial intelligence laboratory in Bengaluru.
A permanent employee's explanation was noticed and rejected, the notice for a departmental enquiry was issued but never acted on, and his own admission was treated as proof. The High Court orders reinstatement pending a proper proceeding.
A Tribunal had allowed dependants who joined on one post to seek appointment on a higher one. The Karnataka High Court quashes those orders, on a rule the Supreme Court settled for exactly this situation.
The criminal court found the trap witnesses contradicted each other and acquitted him. The department, working from the same complaint and the same evidence, compulsorily retired him and docked a quarter of his pension for life.
The State cleared an IT park, took forty per cent of the acquisition cost from the company, notified the land, then accepted the landowners' objections and dropped it. Twenty-two years later the Division Bench has priced the delay.
Refusing to interdict proceedings over Rs 927 crore collected from 1,351 homebuyers, the Court holds a complex web of transactions cannot be examined microscopically at the threshold.
The Revenue cannot use Section 263 to reopen a refund processed under Section 143(1), the Court holds, because the intimation that allowed it is not an order at all.
Using the power to modify recognised in Gayatri Balaswamy, a Division Bench ties the higher rate to the period the claimants were actually repaying their loans.
The Karnataka High Court held that an insurer can deny joint liability where a learner-driver fails to prove compliance with Rule 3 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, but directed pay-and-recover.
The Karnataka High Court, Kalaburagi Bench, held that NEKRTC drivers reassigned as Attenders after accident-related disqualification retain a claim for loss of future income despite unaltered pay.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a KSAT order that quashed a police inspector's transfer, holding that subsequent Board approval cured the procedural defect and rendered the transfer valid.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad quashed a Siruguppa MLA's communication seeking to relocate an approved Tungabhadra lift-irrigation project away from Ibrahimpur and Mannur villages.
The Karnataka High Court modified a family court's visitation schedule that required a 10-year-old to travel 475 kilometres each way between Bengaluru and Honnavar every second weekend.
The Dharwad Bench held that the Board bypassed mandatory Karnataka Wakf Rules by appointing an ad-hoc panel on a minister's recommendation instead of vesting management in the District Waqf Officer.
The Karnataka High Court directed the Director of Municipal Administration to fix a software mapping defect that was blocking sale deed registrations for 13 flats held under a Nirantara Patta perpetual lease in Belagavi.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a murder accused's writ petition challenging an administrative notification that transferred his sessions trial to another court mid-way through the prosecution evidence.
The High Court of Karnataka confirmed a Family Court divorce decree, found cumulative cruelty proved, and sharply reduced permanent alimony to Rs 50 lakh given the wife's independent medical income.
