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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.
