A lower court had declared a marriage void under Section 11 of the Act but the High Court pointed out that this section does not include the condition of the bride being 18.
Bengaluru Metro pillar collapse UPDATE: The court sought answers from officials concerned on the safety measures undertaken and whether tender documents specified safety measures.
FEMA violation: Rs 5,551 crore in bank accounts belonging to Xiaomi was seized after ED's order on irregularities found.
Earlier, the high court asked the Congress party to provide screenshots of the Twitter handle and the other social media accounts before the contentious material was removed.
Karnataka: The two dental colleges that approached the high court for the admission of some students are Sri Venkateshwara Dental College, Bengaluru and KVG Dental College, Sullia.
According to a statement, SC Collegium in its meeting held on Monday approved proposal for elevation of following judicial officers as judges in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Ganesh Chaturthi: In a late-night hearing on Tuesday, the Karnataka High Court upheld an order of the Dharwad municipal commissioner allowing the Ganesh Chaturthi festival to be held at the Hubballi Eidgah maidan.
Ganesh Puja row: While dismissing the plea, the court said that it is clear from the earlier judgments that the property is owned by the government and "the petitioner has taken the property on lease to be used only on two occasions. The government has the right over the said property," said the HC.
The bench headed by Justice HB Prabhakara Shastri on Wednesday (August 17) also quashed charges alleging harassment by husband and mother-in-law levelled by his wife.
The petition was filed by the Delhi-based Evangelical Fellowship of India and the All Karnataka United Christian Forum for Human Rights and heard by a division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe.
The ED froze Xiaomi's accounts on April 29 alleging that it has violated the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) by illegally transferring money abroad to three companies under the guise of royalty payments.
The board has moved the top court along with two other petitioners namely, Munisa Bushra and Jaleesa Sultana Yaseen. The plea said the high court judgment while dismissing the petitions, has proceeded with erroneous reasons to address the issue.
Karnataka High Court had earlier dismissed the petitions filed by a section of Muslim students seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom.
The age-old regressive thought that the husbands are the rulers of their wives, their body, mind and soul should be effaced, a single bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna said while refusing to drop the charge of rape against the petitioner who had allegedly sexually assaulted his wife.
Karnataka government's decision comes in the wake of death threats to the judges from certain quarters in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
Two people were arrested in connection with issuing death threats to the Special Bench judges of the Karnataka High Court who dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classrooms.
The bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice Jaibunnisa Mohiuddin Khazi in its 129-page order, rejected the plea that ban on wearing of hijab by Muslim girls in educational institutions violates rights guaranteed under Article 14, 15, 19, 21 & 25 of the Constitution.
The court maintained that the government has the power to issue impugned government order dated February 5, 2022, and no case is made out for its invalidation.
In an exclusive conversation with India TV, Ravi Shankar Prasad welcomed Karnataka High Court's verdict on hijab row saying right to choice is subject to reasonable restriction.
The Karnataka High Court, which dismissed the batch of petitions by some Muslim girl students from Udupi seeking permission to wear Hijab inside classrooms, said there was no material placed on record to prima facie show that wearing the headscarf was an essential religious practice.
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