The Karnataka high court Tuesday allowed the prosecution of BJP national vice president and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his kin in a case pertaining to the alleged encroachment of forest land in Shimoga district. Setting aside the Shimoga sessions court order that dismissed the case in ...

Advocate KV Dhananjay argues that a recent decision of the Karnataka high court in one of his cases amounts to a rewriting of the Constitution of India, which is without parallel or precedent in the constitutional history of India.

The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, convicted of possessing assests disproportionate to her known sources of income. Alongwith Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natarajan and two others have also been granted bail. PTI tweeted: “Jaya volunteered be...

The Supreme Court will Friday hear the bail plea of AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, who is at present in a Bangalore jail after her conviction in a corruption case. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister was sentenced to four years in prison and a Rs.100 crore fine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dat...

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, currently lodged in Bangalore jail following her conviction in a disproportionate assets case, today moved the Supreme Court seeking bail on several grounds including her ill health. Jayalalithaa, along with her aide Sasikala Natrajan, VK Sudhakaran a...

The Karnataka high court Tuesday rejected the bail plea of jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, abruptly ending frenzied celebrations by her supporters after one of her lawyers earlier said she had got conditional bail. Justice AV Chandrashekara, who heard Jayalalithaa’s petition,...

A special bench of the Karnataka high court has adjourned to 7 October the hearing of jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s petition for suspension of the sentence and bail in a corruption case, despite her lawyers, including Ram Jethmalani, having yesterday managed to secure an e...

After reports earlier today that the Karnataka high court wouldn’t hear jailed J Jayalalithaa’s bail plea until Monday , after the holidays, a special bench is now set to hear her bail plea tomorrow, reported India Today and others. Ashish Dixit, appearing as junior counsel to to senior counsel Ram ...

The criminal revision petition of jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa for suspension of her sentence and bail was Tuesday adjourned to Oct 6 by the judge of a vacation bench of the Karnataka high court here. After admitting the revision petition, Justice Rathnakala posted the bail...

Jailed AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa will file a criminal revision petition Monday in the Karnataka high court to seek bail in the four-year jail term she has been sentenced to for corruption. “A team of senior lawyers met Jayalalithaa Sunday in the visitors’ room of the central jail where she is lod...

The Advocates Association Bangalore called for a strike to defend “prominent Judges of Karnataka”.

Four Lok Sabha Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs and others have collected signatures to impeach Karnataka high court judge Justice KL Manjunath, two months after the central government rejected the Supreme Court collegium’s recommendation to transfer him to Punjab and Haryana, reported the Indian Express ....

The Karnataka high court will introduce wireless internet in six to seven months, reported the Deccan Herald . The advocates association had made the request for a court-based wireless internet network to the registrar general, who have now started the tendering process to find a provider of the int...

Karnataka high court advocate TN Raghupathy has filed a writ challenging the designation of 15 new senior advocates at the HC this year , tweeted BurgerrB and reported Bar & Bench . Raghupathy, who has impleaded the 15 senior advocates in the PIL, has argued that the HC’s senior designation pro...

The Centre asked the collegium to reconsider its recommendation of Karnataka high court justice Manjunath for elevation to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana high court after, according to “highly placed sources in the law ministry”, the Centre received complaints against him, reported The Hindu...

Karnataka high court Justice Ashok B Hinchigeri has struck down the part of Rule-11(1) of the Karnataka Excise Licences (General Conditions) Rules 1967 banning dance as a form of entertainment in error petition filed by a restaurant in Domlur and two professional female dancers, reported the Times o...

NLSIU Bangalore produced a total five senior advocates this year with three now in the Karnataka high court, who were designated next to one non-NLSIU alum.

A Karnataka high court division bench, headed by DH Waghela, said after wasting 30 minutes in court trying to decipher an illegible document filed by the under secretary: “There are many lousy practices in this court. Statements are filed with errors related to typing, spelling drafting, translation...

The Karnataka high court in Bangalore has floated a tender to buy 40 Apple iPhone 5Cs for its judges to use. While the smartphones are the lowest end phones that the US-based company makes, they still retail for around Rs 40,000 each (and ironically are not compatible with two recently-launched Andr...

Bombay, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh high and subordinate courts will in real time upload their case pendency statistics and case progress reports online, with litigants slated to have access to some of the data via phone text messages. The deadline for these three states’ courts to implement the up...