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  ‘Howsoever high you may be, law is above you’. Karnataka High Court rejects plea of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others against criminal prosecution for unlawful assembly.

  • 07-February-2024
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  Industrial Disputes Act. Employees who voluntarily retire from service having accepted benefits under voluntary retirement package cannot raise industrial dispute. Karnataka High Court.

  • 07-February-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Statements in autobiography. Unless a full-fledged trial establishes defamatory nature of the statements, which are allegedly based on true facts, injunction cannot be granted restraining circulation of the book. Karnataka High Court.

  • 07-February-2024
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  Where title to property is not disputed, suit for possession and consequential injunction is maintainable without seeking declaration of title. Karnataka High Court.

  • 07-February-2024
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  ‘’It is the duty of the State to take care of the widows and children of ex-servicemen who served this country’’. Karnataka High Court directs proper consideration of application for grant of land by widow of soldier.

  • 06-February-2024
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  Arbitration and Conciliation Act. Benefit of extended limitation to challenge award is available only if the application filed under Section 33 falls within the parameters of the Section. Karnataka High Court.

  • 06-February-2024
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  Defendant can claim title over property by adverse possession by way of counter claim in the suit filed by the plaintiff for permanent injunction. Karnataka High Court permits amendment of the written statement.

  • 06-February-2024
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  On the expiry of a lease/license executed by the Corporation/Municipality, the tenants/licensees cannot be forcibly evicted from the shops/commercial property without due process of law. Karnataka High Court.

  • 06-February-2024
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  Widow adopting son. Doctrine of 'relation-back' makes sonship retroactive from the moment of death of the late husband and the new entrant is deemed to have been born on the date of death of the adoptive father. Karnataka High Court.

  • 06-February-2024
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  ‘Persons in public employment are not slaves of the Government, nor of their higher ups in the echelon of administration’. Karnataka High Court quashes dismissal order against public servant honorably acquitted in the criminal case.

  • 06-February-2024
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  Karnataka Land Revenue Act. Lands over which kumki privilege existed can be granted to any person, if he is able to establish that he is in unauthorised occupation over the said land prior to 14th day of April 1990. Karnataka High Court.

  • 05-February-2024
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  Lands granted to persons belonging to SC/ST under the Karnataka Land Grant Rules do not come within the purview of Karnataka SC/ST (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act. Karnataka High Court.

  • 05-February-2024
  • Daksha Legal