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21Sep

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Supreme Court objects to Karnataka HC judge calling Bengaluru locality ‘Pakistan’ | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda's purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI D Y Chandrachud took suo motu cognisance of Justice Srishananda's controversial reference to a Bengaluru locality in the course of observations on traffic rule violation, which trended on social media along with his misogynistic comment aimed at a woman lawyer.The CJI constituted a bench of the top five judges - Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy besides him - to record SC's displeasure over judges going overboard...

18Sep

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Dinesh Gundu Rao, wife challenge legality of Karnataka Municipal Corporation and Certain Other Law (Amendment) Act, 2021

Minister for Health Dinesh Gundu Rao and his wife Tabassum Dinesh Rao have approached the Karnataka High Court challenging the legality of the Karnataka Municipal Corporation and Certain Other Law (Amendment) Act, 2021. This Act, enacted in January 2022, was designed to “nullify” the court’s 2021 judgment, which had declared charges such as ground rent, licence fees, scrutiny fees, and security deposits levied for sanctioning building plans as illegal.Notice questionedThe couple has also contested a demand notice issued to them by the BBMP on August 29, 2024. The notice requires them to pay ₹41.55 lakh in various charges under the amended law for the approval of a commercial building plan on a property they jointly own, in addition to ₹3.46 lakh towards labour cess.Justice Ashok S. Kinagi,...

10Sep

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MUDA case: Governor could not have granted approval for probe against Siddaramaiah without preliminary report from investigating agency, Advocate-General argues before Karnataka HC

The Governor could not have directly granted approval, following complainants seeking direction from a special court for order to conduct an investigation against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) scam, without securing a preliminary report from the investigating agency concerned, it was argued before the High Court of Karnataka on behalf of the State government.Appearing for the government, State Advocate-General (A-G) Shashi Kiran Shetty on Monday contended that even though the Governor is a competent authority to grant approval for probe against the Chief Minister, he could not have directly played the role of conducting a “preliminary inquiry or enquiry” in terms of Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act.These submissions were made be...