Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court stayed lower court proceedings against former chief minister Siddaramaiah for four weeks. He is an accused in a case where during his tenure as deputy chief minister in 1997 he had allegedly bought 10 guntas of land in Vijayanagar 2nd Stage in Mysuru developed by MUDA through an
Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has refused to allow online sale of liquor to consumers in the state. The court passed the order, while dismissing a petition filed by Hip Bar Pvt Ltd, a company engaged in offering semi-closed prepaid payment instrument (Mobile Wallet) to its customers among other services. Justice S. Sujatha, in
Source: deccanchronicle.com Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeals of former minister D.K. Shivakumar and three others, who had challenged the order of a single-judge bench dismissing their plea questioning the ED summons against them in a money laundering case. The division bench, headed by Chief Justice A.S. Oka, upheld the single-judge bench
Source: thehindu.com Concerned over the impact of three personnel from the State’s Intelligence wing calling up a petitioner to enquire about his PIL petition in the court, the Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the State government to spell out what measures it will take to prevent such instances in future. The court also directed the police
Source: thehindu.com The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the State government and the Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR) Ltd. to submit an application within a month to the Union government seeking consent — under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 — for the lodges operated in permanent structures built using materials such as bricks in the forest
Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court directed the state government to constitute a committee of four experts for a comprehensive study on the deaths of elephants at eight elephant camps in the state. Earlier, the court had asked the government and the petitioner to name specialists or expert body to study and report on the
Source: thehindu.com The State’s disaster management is itself “disastrous” due to non-implementation of several crucial provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. This, even though the State witnessed several droughts and floods all these years, the Karnataka High Court observed on Monday. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Mohammad Nawaz made these
Source: bhatkallys.com With the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi fast approaching, authorities in Bengaluru have tightened their noose on the use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) to make idols. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been on a war footing in seizing such idols that enter the city and those made in traditional hubs like
Source: newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: Taking the state government to the task for not complying with the directions issued by it with regard to establishment of cattle camps with specified amount of fodder in drought-hit taluks across state, the Karnataka High Court on Friday said these matters should be handled by the government sensitively. “It is apparent
Source: newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: While striking down sub-rule (11) of Rule 14-AKK of Karnataka Cooperative Societies Rules, the Karnataka High Court said that office bearer of cooperative societies should vacate the office if resolution expressing want of confidence is passed with 2/3rd of the total number of elected directors in a meeting specially convened for no-confidence
