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  Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act. Land that is primarily used for agricultural purposes and is not designated for non-agricultural use in the prevailing Master Plan is expressly excluded from the definition of 'vacant land.' Consequently, the State has no legal authority to acquire or take possession of such agricultural land under the Act. Karnataka High Court.

  • 18-March-2026
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  The State cannot demolish a citizen’s building for road widening or alleged encroachment without following due process of law. Any demolition without prior notice or lawful acquisition is illegal, and the State must pay full compensation, recoverable from the official responsible for such high-handed action. Karnataka High Court.

  • 18-March-2026
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  When a married women willingly engages in a longterm sexual relationship with another man, fully aware of its nature and without any cogent evidence to show that such relationship was induced by misconception of facts or false promise of marriage made in bad faith from the inception, the man cannot be held guilty of rape under Section 376 of IPC. Karnataka High Court.

  • 16-March-2026
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  ‘Child marriage is not a private family engagement beyond scrutiny, but a social wrong, demanding accountability at every level of participation. A girl married before 18 does not merely enter matrimony, she exits opportunity’. Karnataka High Court refuses to quash criminal proceedings against the parents and the husband of the minor girl under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.

  • 18-March-2026
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  Negotiable Instruments Act. Civil suit for recovery of money can go hand in hand with the complaint under Section 138 since one is for the purpose of penalizing the dishonor of a cheque and the other in terms of general law for recovery of money. Karnataka High Court.

  • 18-March-2026
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  Negotiable Instruments Act. When the power of attorney holder of the complainant himself is a party to the transaction, the non-mentioning of his personal knowledge in the complaint is not fatal to the proceedings. Karnataka High Court.

  • 16-March-2026
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  Karnataka SC & ST (PTCL) Act. When the sale of granted land is declared null and void and that decision is confirmed by the court, the land must be restored to the original grantee or their legal heirs. A later purchaser cannot claim protection on the ground of unreasonable delay if the very sale transaction in their chain of title had already been cancelled and decided by the court long before that new legal principle came into existence. Karnataka High Court.

  • 17-March-2026
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  Karnataka Stamp Act. For an Agreement of Sale to attract higher stamp duty, the possession of the property must be delivered or agreed to be delivered specifically 'under' or 'in part performance' of that agreement. A mere acknowledgment of past possession does not equate to a transfer of possession 'under the agreement' for the purpose of statutory stamp duty. Karnataka High Court.

  • 17-March-2026
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  A Show Cause Notice issued under Section 74 of the CGST Act cannot be quashed at the threshold stage simply because the evidence used was gathered by a different Commissionerate or jurisdiction. Under the GST framework, there is no statutory bar preventing a 'proper officer' from utilizing relevant material collected by ‘other tax authorities’. Karnataka High Court.

  • 17-March-2026
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  Karnataka Land Reforms Act. When the lands stand in the name of a private individual as the kathedar, the Deputy Commissioner cannot record the same as ‘unrecorded habitations’ under Section 38A. Karnataka High Court.

  • 16-March-2026
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  Karnataka Sakaala Services Act. Thirty days period for issuance/rejection of Khatha, from the date of the application, includes consideration of any objections filed for issuance of khatha. Karnataka High Court.

  • 16-March-2026
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  The allotment of Civic Amenity sites by an Urban Development Authority is not a matter of pure discretion but is a quasi-judicial process governed strictly by statutory rules. An allotment made without recorded reasons for preferring one applicant over others, or one that ignores the comparative merits of competing institutions is liable to be quashed. Karnataka High Court.

  • 16-March-2026
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