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  ‘’Proceedings before the Lok-Adalat are also sacrosanct and all parties are required to approach the Lok-Adalat with clean hands with full disclosure’’. Karnataka High Court cancels fraudulent compromise entered before the Lok-Adalat.

  • 25-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Prosecution of a public servant by Police Wing of the Lokayukta and departmental inquiry by Administrative and Inquiry wings of the Lokayukta results in ‘inevitable bias’. Karnataka High Court strikes down KEB Regulation as manifestly arbitrary.

  • 23-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Karnataka Land Reforms Act. While considering the application for occupancy rights under Section 77A, the Deputy Commissioner cannot order vesting of the land with the Government by treating the land to be excess holding. Karnataka High Court.

  • 23-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Arbitration and Conciliation Act. Interim measure granted under Section 9 gets automatically vacated if the arbitral proceedings are not commenced within 90 days from the date of such order. Karnataka High Court.

  • 23-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Motor Vehicles Act. In case of comprehensive insurance policy, personal accident coverage is applicable even to the borrower of the vehicle. Karnataka High Court.

  • 22-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Karnataka Land Grant Rules. Mortgage to a Co-operative Bank is not an alienation. Mortgagee is entitled to sell the property while enforcing the mortgage even within the prohibited period. Karnataka High Court.

  • 22-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. Bank, to which property is mortgaged, can file Writ Petition questioning the order cancelling the gift deed in favour of the borrower, to enforce the security interest. Karnataka High Court.

  • 22-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Negotiable Instruments Act. Partners who have retired from the partnership firm before the issuance of the cheque cannot be prosecuted for an offence punishable under Section 138 unless their involvement even after the retirement is shown. Karnataka High Court.

  • 21-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Karnataka SC/ST (PTCL) Act. Grantee’s failure to purchase alternate land, after obtaining permission from the Deputy Commissioner to alienate, cannot be a ground to cancel sale of granted land. Karnataka High Court.

  • 21-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  Karnataka SC/ST (PTCL) Act. Deputy Commissioner cannot impose condition requiring grantee to purchase alternate land from out of the sale proceeds while granting permission to alienate granted land. Karnataka High Court.

  • 21-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  ‘Consideration need not always be monetary’. Settlement deed requiring transferee to care for transferors and do charity as a consideration is valid in law. Supreme Court.

  • 21-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal
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  After the commencement of the Hindu Succession Act, undivided interest of a Hindu in a joint family property can be disposed of by Will as per Section 30. Karnataka High Court examines the position prior to and after the Act.

  • 21-November-2024
  • Daksha Legal