Mangalore : Orissa High Court chief justice V. Gopal Gowda, said that judges and lawyers must verify all the aspects of a case before delivering the verdict. Gopal Gowda said after inaugurating the 2-day Regional Advocates Conference 2012 jointly organized by the Mangalore Bar Association and the Karnataka State Bar Council at Loyola Hall on […]

Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition, seeking a direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to disqualify JDS state President HD Kumaraswamy from membership of Parliament for allegedly committing bigamy. The division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen dismissed the petition filed by city-based advocate Sashidhar Belagumba on the grounds […]

Bangalore: The Karnataka Government is said to have recommended the name of former Kerala High Court Chief Justice R S Bannurmath for the post of the Lokayukta. Sources in the government said that the 63- year-old retired judge’s name has been sent to Raj Bhavan on Wednesday. The post of the Lokayukta was vacant after […]

Bangalore : The Reddy brothers of Bellary, ministers in BJP rule, have been slapped with a penalty of Rs.25000 in connection with a court case against them, and Karnataka high court has asked them to pay the fine, for holding an office of profit, while being ministers with pay & perks separately. Although the penalty […]

Bangalore  : Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily today declined to comment on the demand for a probe into allegations against former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s son-in-law P V Sreenijin possessing disproportionate assets. Referring to the demand for a probe into the charges by former CJI Justice V R Krishna Iyer, Dr […]

New Delhi: A 3 judge bench led by Chief Justice, S.H Kapadia, has been formed in New Delhi to decide upon a special leave petition seeking deferment of verdict on Ayodhya title suit. The bench includes Justice Aftab Alam and Justice K.S Radhakrishnan. The 3 eminent judges will hear on Sept 28 at 10.30 am. […]

Bangalore : Justice R.D. Dinakaran, CJ of Karnataka, who was not attending to his official work in Bangalore in the last 6 month and who had been transferred to Sikkim against protests from lawyers there, is finally leaving for Gangtok to continue as chief Justice, but the allegations against him notwithstanding. He was not wanted […]