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Justice A. Badharudeen upheld the bar under Section 18 of the SC/ST Act, finding prima facie evidence that repeated public humiliation by the accused teacher drove Scheduled Caste student Nithin Raj to suicide.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench held that Electro-Homeopathy falls under the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 and its 2021 successor, overturning a Single Judge's contrary finding.
A Division Bench monitoring the SIT probe into gold stripped from Sabarimala's Dwarapalaka idols has set a hard deadline, warning the investigation cannot linger indefinitely.
The Master and Chief Officer of M.V. Wan Hai 503, held in India since June 2025 after a maritime fire, may return home under a Rs. 25 lakh bank guarantee and undertaking to appear when required.
The Kerala High Court directed four crew members of vessel MSC Elsa 3, arrayed as accused under the Merchant Shipping Act, to approach the Magistrate's court now that cognizance has been taken.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held that a practising Homeopath's continued registration under the 2021 Act rendered her Form No.6 declaration factually incorrect, making her enrolment application invalid.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held that a petition seeking declaration of marriage and property rights cannot be filed before a Family Court when the alleged husband had died before the petition was instituted.
The Kerala High Court dismissed an appeal by a madrassa teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old student, confirming sentences totalling 20 years under the POCSO Act and Section 377 IPC.
The Kerala High Court upheld a brown sugar conviction under Section 21(b) of the NDPS Act, ruling Section 50 inapplicable where contraband was recovered from a plastic bag, not a body search.
A daughter who has waited over a decade for a Junior Assistant post under the Compassionate Employment Scheme wins a direction from the Kerala High Court to force a cadre review and seniority-based appointment.
The Kerala High Court quashed a District Police Chief's finding that a trainee employee was "not suitable for appointment" solely because a motor vehicle accident case was pending against him.
The Kerala High Court found that waste cleared pursuant to its November 2025 direction had re-accumulated along the Kochi-Panavel Highway and near a railway overbridge, prompting fresh mandatory directions to the Kochi Municipal Corporation.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has directed the Director of Devaswom Audit to personally appear and account for audit objections from 2008-09 that remain unresolved in 2026.
The Kerala High Court found the Vigilance Bureau's recommendation to drop charges against 41 of 43 accused incongruous with its own findings of entrustment and loss.
Only the sibling who proved she lived with and relied on the deceased pensioner qualifies for loss of dependency; the other four adult siblings living separately do not.
A Kerala High Court Division Bench held that the Malabar Devaswom Board's indefinite appointment of an Executive Officer displaced the hereditary trustee's rights and violated the temple's 1966 scheme.
Seven foreign crew members of the sunken vessel MSC Elsa 3, stranded in Kochi, asked the Kerala High Court to release their passports and let them leave India.
Justice C.S. Dias stayed proceedings in a Fort Kochi crime after finding that the Aircraft Act, 1934 was repealed from 1 January 2025 and the accused were charged under a law no longer in force.
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.
