Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday asked the State to file an affidavit regarding the number of elephant camps run by the State and facilities provided at these camps. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice H.T. Narendra Prasad issued this direction after hearing the Public Interest Litigation filed by city-based…
Devaraja Market demolition row: HC directs MCC to finalise decision within 3 months
June 16, 2019Mysuru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the District Administration, Mysuru City Corporation and the Heritage Committee to decide on the fate of Devaraja Market building within three months. The Court has directed the authorities to decide whether to restore or demolish or re-construct the Devaraja Market building. A portion of the building had collapsed…
HC clears decks for Vishnu Memorial
April 13, 2019Vacates civil injunction issued by Mysuru Local Court Memorial to come up at 5-acre land near Udbur Gate Actor’s family welcomes High Court order Mysuru: A Memorial for late actor “Sahasa Simha” Dr. Vishnuvardhan in Mysuru will soon be a reality as the Karnataka High Court has given permission to build the Memorial by vacating…
Don’t immerse Talacauvery Agasthyeshwara Linga: HC
April 12, 2019Madikeri: The Karnataka High Court has passed an interim order restraining the removal of Agasthyeshwara Shivalinga from Agasthyeshwara temple in Talacauvery, Kodagu district, the birthplace of River Cauvery. A Division Bench, headed by Acting Chief Justice L. Narayana Swamy, passed this order after hearing a petition filed by Lohitt Urs, a resident of Mysuru and…
Proposed Road, Railway Projects in Kodagu: HC orders govt. to maintain status quo
January 21, 2019These projects will wreak havoc in the district, warns IISc. report Mysuru: The Karnataka High Court (HC) has directed the State Additional Advocate General and Special Public Prosecutor to maintain status quo pending disposal of the petitions filed by Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) against the proposed Railway and Highway projects that are bound to destroy…
HC confirms life sentence on bakery owner who had killed his wife
July 31, 2018Killer had buried body next to an oven Son found a foot popping out of burial spot Mysuru/H.D. Kote: The Karnataka High Court has upheld the life sentence imposed on a man who had murdered his wife and buried her body next to a bakery oven at his home in H.D. Kote. One of the…
HC tells Government to come up with Ward quota list of ULBs by July 31
July 29, 2018Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court recently pulled up the State Government for not submitting the reservation list to the State Election Commission (SEC) despite the undertaking given in the last hearing. The Court adjourned the hearing and granted time to the State to issue the reservation list before July 31 following the assurance by Advocate…
HC sets aside annulment of University of Mysore teaching staff
July 7, 2018Mysuru: The High Court has set aside the State Government’s order of annulling the appointment of teaching staff of University of Mysore including that of former in-charge Vice-Chancellor Prof. C. Basavaraju. In all, the appointments of 113 teaching staff including 9 Professors and 30 Readers have been upheld. High Court Justice A.S. Bopanna passed the…
Sensational Devu Murder Case at Paduvarahalli: HC dismisses petitions against Police filed by accused
July 1, 2018Mysuru: The Karnataka High Court (HC) has dismissed two writ petitions filed by former Corporator C. Mahadesh alias Avva Madesha and other accused questioning the move by the Jayalakshmipuram Police to book them under Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KOCA) in the sensational Devendra alias Devu murder case. The HC has also asked the…
Cauvery activist from Mandya gets jail for contempt
May 26, 2018Karnataka HC convicts him for contempt for filing criminal complaint against Supreme Court judges who passed Cauvery verdict Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday convicted a man for contempt of court after he had made reckless allegations against sitting and former judges of the Supreme Court. The Bench of Justices R.B. Budihal and K.S. Mudgal…
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