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The Karnataka High Court dismissed a wife's revision petition challenging the Family Court's refusal of maintenance, holding she left her matrimonial home without reasonable cause.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court rejected an appeal by two UAPA convicts seeking to cut their seven-year sentence to five years, citing the gravity of their planned terrorist activities.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad has quashed an externment order, holding that Section 55 of the Karnataka Police Act, 1963 does not authorise a Superintendent of Police to exercise externment powers even under a Government notification.
The Dharwad Bench held that a woman who admitted knowing of a subsisting marriage cannot claim maintenance under Section 125 CrPC, distinguishing the Supreme Court's ruling in Badshah.
The Karnataka High Court allowed a bail appeal by a man accused as a brothel customer, holding that a customer cannot reasonably be expected to know a victim's age or caste.
The Karnataka High Court disposed of a writ petition challenging a lookout circular, recording that it would not be enforced, while expressing deep displeasure at police for issuing it in a bailable offence case.
Justice S Vishwajith Shetty held that an accused who actually approached the victim's mother to formalise marriage could not be said to have made a false promise under Section 69 of the BNS.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna found that Whitefield Police Station took a man into custody before the Section 35(3) BNSS notice period had even expired, calling this a repeated pattern of unlawful conduct.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a magistrate's order accepting the second 'B' report in the Ramya Murthy suicide case, finding investigation flawed and conducted under the wrong provision.
A Karnataka High Court Division Bench dismissed a husband's appeal against a divorce decree, holding that prolonged discord, failed reconciliation, and admitted habits cumulatively established mental cruelty under Section 13(1)(ia).
Justice Vijaykumar A. Patil declined to cancel bail for accused in the Ashraf lynching case but found the Sessions Court erred in not notifying the victim's next of kin before granting bail.
A Dharwad Division Bench found, prima facie, that a 1935 court-framed scheme under Section 92 CPC survives the HRICE Act until formally modified by the Deputy Commissioner.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a Family Court order that had dismissed the mother's plea, directed the father to produce the child before court on 25 August 2026, and imposed Rs 5 lakh costs for violating judicial orders and the child's basic human rights.
Karnataka High Court dismisses a husband's revision against a Family Court maintenance order, rejecting his claim that his wife left home without permission as grounds to deny her upkeep.
The Karnataka High Court held that a civic authority cannot demand free land for road widening as a post-facto condition for granting an occupancy certificate when no such requirement existed at the building licence stage.
Applying Section 497 of the BNSS for the first time in the context of a cyber-fraud search and seizure, the Karnataka High Court directed a Bengaluru magistrate to decide a pending custody application within one week.
Petitioners from the Mysore and Sandur royal families sought deletion of Section 5(ii) of the Hindu Succession Act as unconstitutional; the Karnataka High Court dismissed the challenge, relying on Supreme Court precedent.
The Karnataka High Court set aside a 2023 government notification re-appointing Sri Sadashiva Murthy as Special Public Prosecutor in the Fr Thomas K.J. murder case, citing non-application of mind and an impermissible direct-payment arrangement with the complainant Seminary.
The Dharwad Bench held that a landowner cannot be tried for culpable negligence causing death merely because the fatal electric wire passed through her property.
Two accused arrested for assaulting a Tumakuru lodge owner over his establishment's name following an IPL match win bail from the Karnataka High Court.
A Division Bench at Bengaluru set aside a Single Judge order that had quashed the Health Officer's NOC requirement, holding public safety outweighs private trading interest.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna holds that a writ petition under Article 226 read with Section 482 CrPC challenging ED search and freezing of 106 bank accounts is perfectly maintainable before a criminal roster bench.
A Karnataka High Court Division Bench reinstated the suspension of a SIMS Associate Professor facing two proven sexual harassment complaints, faulting both the institution's Director and the Principal Secretary for shielding him.
Justice H.P. Sandesh found the accused had made the complainant appear 12 times for cross-examination without ever questioning him, then filed a complaint against his own advocate.
