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The Kerala High Court dismissed a wife's appeal against an ex parte divorce decree, finding postal and oral evidence conclusively proved she had received court notices despite her forgery allegation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court granted interim custody to a mother after an unidentified lawyer entered the court hall and told her six-year-old son that his father was waiting, visibly traumatising the child.
The High Court of Kerala confirmed a three-year sentence under Section 7 read with Section 8 of the POCSO Act, rejecting eight grounds of appeal including a constitutional challenge to the Act's age threshold.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed a writ appeal by Puthur Service Co-operative Bank, holding that Consumer Protection Act forums retain jurisdiction over deposit disputes even where the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act provides its own remedy.
The Kerala High Court directed a Panchayat to correct a birth certificate left blank at birth, holding that procedural gaps in the Registration of Births and Deaths Act cannot override a child's constitutional right to identity.
Kerala High Court quashes rejection of a father's guardianship application for his daughter with Down Syndrome, holding the condition falls within the National Trust Act's definition of mental retardation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed a writ appeal by three children seeking burial of their deceased mother, upholding her written consent under Section 4A of the Kerala Anatomy Act, 1957.
The Kerala High Court granted transit anticipatory bail to a Muslim man and his Hindu wife, shielding them from arrest under a Madhya Pradesh FIR alleging kidnapping, pending their approach to the jurisdictional court.
Kerala High Court holds that a charge-sheet e-filed at 6:02 PM on the sixtieth day falls outside the statutory period, entitling accused to default bail under Section 187 BNSS.
Justice Jobin Sebastian posted the civil contempt case to 30 June 2026 after the Public Prosecutor sought time to verify whether the court's earlier order had been obeyed.
A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Soumen Sen ordered a child's immediate return to his mother after the father removed him from school in breach of a Family Court custody decree.
Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan held that a Grama Panchayat cannot await owner identification before removing wild vegetation that creates a snakebite hazard for neighbouring residents.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held that where a disability pension claim is raised within 15 years of discharge, the onus of proof lies primarily on the Department, not the claimant.
The Kerala High Court dismissed a challenge to a partition decree over a Mumbai residential flat, holding that the Sub Court, Chavakkad had territorial jurisdiction because most other properties in the suit lay within its limits.
Resolving a conflict between two single-judge rulings, a Kerala High Court Division Bench holds that describing the common boundary in the plaint satisfies Order VII Rule 3 CPC.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court upheld the Armed Forces Tribunal's grant of disability pension to the widow of an ex-serviceman invalided out with Schizophrenia, finding the medical board gave no reasons for its constitutional-origin finding.
Finding the remand order ex facie illegal, Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath stayed the order without waiting for State instructions and directed the Additional Sessions Judge-III, Thalassery to release all 17 accused forthwith.
Justice Jobin Sebastian held that Section 324 IPC cannot be a minor offence of Section 332 IPC because both carry the same maximum punishment and their ingredients are not cognate.
A 1984 title suit decree, confirmed up to the Supreme Court, remained unexecuted due to third-party obstruction; the Kerala High Court invoked Article 227 to direct police assistance.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench tracking sanitation at Chottanikkara Bhagavathi Temple heard progress on a ₹20.7 lakh waste treatment project and directed the complainant to produce evidence of continuing lapses.
The Kerala High Court upgraded convictions in the 2018 Attappadi lynching death of Madhu, a tribal man, sentencing 12 accused to life imprisonment under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The Kerala High Court held that internal note files in disciplinary proceedings are personal information exempt from RTI disclosure, and that the State Information Commission's order directing blanket disclosure was legally unsustainable.
