The Supreme Court collegium on Friday transferred Justice Dinakaran to Sikkim high court. On April 3, the collegium had asked the chief justice of Karnataka high court to go on leave. Dinakaran, 59, has not been performing judicial functions after Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari admitted a motion in December seeking his removal on charges of corruption, land-grab and abuse of the judicial office.
The Bengaluru police filed an affidavit before the Karnataka high court on Thursday alleging that controversial People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasar Madani was trying to form an Islamic India. Madani was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged role in the Bengaluru serial blasts that had rocked the city on July 25, 2008. On Wednesday, Madani had filed an application in the high court seeking his discharge from the case.
The recent 'revelation' by TN fishers freed by Sri Lanka after they had paid up Lankan rupees 50,000 each in fines, that their hair was tonsured in prison and they were forced to remove their garments other than the underpants, and were also made to clean toilets, as if with vengeance, has touched a raw nerve this time, just as another issue or issues had done it ahead of the Jallikattu protests, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again refused to apologise for his Modi surname remark that led to his disqualification as an MP but urged the Supreme Court to stay his conviction in the criminal defamation case stemming from his comment, asserting he is not guilty.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday claimed that the resignation of Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand vindicated its stand that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest was aimed at finishing the party.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against former chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji, and his wife on their plea seeking quashing of the summons issued by a Bengaluru trial court on a "frivolous"and "mischievous" complaint filed by an NGO alleging breach of trust and corruption in merger of three firms with a Premji group firm. A bench of Justices Sanjya Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy also issued notice to an NGO, Indian Awake for Transparency and others and sought their response. Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, A M Singhvi appearing for Premji and others said that the complaint was "mischievous" in nature.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of private complaint and probe by Lokayukta police against him over alleged illegal mining during his tenure as the Karnataka chief minister from 1999 to 2004.
Karnataka HC seeks probe into fund diversion by United Spirits.
Supreme Court's Collegium headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana has recommended names of 13 advocates for elevation as the judges of the Allahabad High Court.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, his wife Datty and another accused Anil appeared before the Lokayukta court on Friday in a complaint filed against them alleging illegal construction on government lands and allotment of sites to them under discretionary quota despite them possessing land.
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the legal issue of whether the Enforcement Directorate can attach ancestral properties of the accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as 'proceeds of crime.'
In a setback for former chief minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka high court on Tuesday rejected his petition challenging the proceedings against him in connection with two cases of denotification. Justice Anand Byra Reddy, who had reserved orders on the matter a couple of weeks ago, pronounced the order rejecting Yeddyurappa's petition.This verdict paves the way for the continuation of proceedings against Yeddyurappa in the Lokayukta court.
A one-line notification issued by the High Court Registrar General Budhihal on Wednesday said that Justice Dinakaran will not be presiding over the bench till further orders. It was not immediately clear whether Justice Dinakaran has himself withdrawn from judicial duties or was directed to so.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday a issued notice to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on a petition challenging his decision to disqualify seven members of Legislative Assembly.
The Karnataka high court which on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa made a strong observation, "Taking a former chief minister into custody who continues to be in public life will humiliate him."
No prima facie case has been made out against former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa under the Prevention of Corruption Act in an alleged land scams, his counsel told the Karnataka high court on Thursday. The court adjourned till Friday hearing on Yeddyurappa's application seeking bail following his arrest for alleged irregularities in denotification of government lands.
Delivering the verdict, Westminster Magistrates' Court Chief Magistrate Judge Emma Arbuthnot said that there was "no sign of a false case being mounted against him".
The Karnataka high court on Thursday adjourned by two weeks hearing on the petition challenging the government's controversial circular on teaching of the Bhagavad Gita in primary and higher secondary schools in the state.
The Karnataka government has re-imposed a ban on the sale and distribution of soft drinks within schools, colleges and hostels with immediate effect.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to attend the next meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said on Monday.
"This is our stand that hijab is not an essential religious practice. There was a statement by Dr B R Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly where he said 'let us keep the religious instructions outside educational institutions'," Karnataka Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi told the full bench of the high court, which is hearing the hijab case.
It quashed a case pending against a person as it found that the alleged abuse was made in a basement of a building, where the victim and his co-workers alone were present.
The Election Commission on Thursday said it will take 'immediate consequential steps' on bypolls to 15 Karnataka assembly seats after studying the order of the Supreme Court.
Ten years after Kingfisher Airlines was grounded, its former employees continue to wait for their dues. On Monday, the Supreme Court awarded a four-month sentence to the grounded airline's flamboyant owner Vijay Mallya in a contempt case. The apex court also ordered him to deposit $40 million plus interest in four weeks to avoid attachment of his properties.
The Karnataka high court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, his two sons and son-in-law in relation to the illegal mining case.
The Karnataka high court on Monday sought an explanation from the Indian National Congress for collecting Rs 10,000 as party fund from its members who are aspiring candidates.
The Karnataka high court on Monday granted bail to former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, who was arrested in connection with the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board land scam.
Initially, banners were placed during the annual Kaup Marigudi festival in Udupi district, stating that non-Hindu vendors and traders should not be allowed entry.
Serial killer Umesh Reddy, who has been charged with the rapes and murders of several women, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by the Karnataka High Court. Special judge S R Bannurmath, a senior High Court judge, while pronouncing the verdict, termed Reddy as a violent offender and described the case as 'rarest of the rare' and deserving the death sentence.
"We are inclined to stay the proceedings. Accordingly the proceedings on the FIR on the issue ordered by the Karnataka Lokayukta will remain stayed," a bench comprising justices Altamas Kabir and Gyan Sudha Misra said.
The fresh ban came after the government informed the high court last week that it had withdrawn its August 14 ban on the sale of soft drinks.
The case to be probed against S M Krishna would involve the dereservation of 34 forest blocks that allegedly facilitated illegal mining. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The Karnataka high court will hear on Tuesday the petition filed by Union External Affairs Minister S M Krishna challenging the proceedings against him in the illegal mining case. The matter is expected to be come up in the morning session and will be heard by Justice B V Pinto, the same judge who heard the bail plea filed by B S Yeddyurappa.
The Karnataka government has told the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowerment Committee that it could go ahead and probe the three former chief ministers of the state in connection with the illegal mining case.
If religious fanaticism in Afghanistan is being treated as an act of terror, then I do not see any reason why attacks on churches should not come under the same purview, says Justice M F Saldanha
The legal team of former Chief Minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa on Monday will apply for bail before the Karnataka high court. A member of his legal team informed that the bail plea to be filed on Monday would also cite medical reasons, as he was admitted in hospital after he complained of chest pain.
The high court said there was no infirmity in the order passed by a trial court recommending the extradition of accused Bernd Alexander Bruno Wehnelt to face trial for the offences under the German Criminal Code.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, seeking the quashing of a disproportionate assets case, the trial in which is to commence in Karnataka.
A week after chiding the Karnataka government over the "inordinate delay" in appointing the Lokayukta, the Karnataka high court on Monday directed it to begin the process of appointment in the next two days.
'We are very close to become a theocratic State where Hinduism is the official religion of the government.'
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