Kerala High Court | Courts should carefully analyse cases while dealing with pre-arrest bail pleas under SC/ST Act
It is shocking, rather a mind-blowing fact that many innocent persons are victims of false implication under the SC/ST Act
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No patent infirmity in the order of conviction to render it erroneous; Kerala High Court rejects suspension of sentence to the husband in ‘Vismaya dowry death case’
The atrocities against women in their matrimonial homes are on the rise, and women committing suicide unable to bear the cruelty and harassment on demand of dowry are also rampant.
Kerala High Court| Section 31 of Domestic Violence Act only applies to breach to protection orders; No penalty can be imposed for failure to pay maintenance
Kerala High Court held that Section 31 of D.V Act would apply only on violation of protection order passed under Section 20 of the D.V Act.
Can a ‘customer’ in a brothel be proceeded against criminally under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956; Kerala High Court answers
Kerala High Court held that the words ‘person with whom such prostitution is carried on’ as appearing in section 7(1) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 will include a ‘customer’. Thus, a customer in a brothel can be proceeded against criminally.
Family Courts are reluctant to release maintenance amount and unwantedly insist for release orders; Kerala High Court directs Family Courts to release the arrears of maintenance
Kerala High Court: In a case filed seeking the release of maintenance amount as in the instant set of facts
Kerala High Court directs every station house officer to record FIR within an hour from the time information is received regarding an attack on a healthcare professional
Kerala High Court: In a case filed concerning recurring violence against Doctors and Healthcare Professionals, a Division Bench of Devan
Supreme Court| Election cannot be declared void for non-disclosure of conviction for substantive offences under Kerala Police Act
Supreme Court: In an appeal against the judgment passed by the Kerala High Court confirming an order passed by the
Kerala High Court | Marriage between Muslims under personal law is not excluded from the sweep of POCSO Act
A child marriage compromises the growth of the child to her full potential. It is the bane of society.
Supreme Court| Suit for damages concerning balance land cannot be barred by Section 34 of SARFAESI Act
Supreme Court: In an appeal against the judgment passed by the Kerala High Court, wherein it has set aside the
Explained| Why Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Kerala MV Taxation (Amendment) Act, 2005, & the Kerala Motor Transport Workers' Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 2005
Supreme Court: In a case raising questions on the Constitutional validity of sub-sections (7) and (8) of Section 4 [introduced
“Section 219 CrPC directory in nature”; Kerala High Court upholds order for dismissing accused’s application for joint trial
Kerala High Court: In a criminal miscellaneous petition challenging the order passed by the Sessions Court, wherein the Court dismissed
Muslim wife can terminate marriage even without the will of the husband, by invoking ‘Khula’; Kerala High Court upholds
Kerala High Court: In a review petition arising from an appeal filed by the husband challenging a divorce decree granted to a
Kerala High Court set aside transfer order of Judge who made ‘sexually provocative dress’ remark; Upholding the same will have a deleterious effect on the morale of the judicial officers in the State
Kerala High Court: In an appeal filed against the judgment of a Single Judge transferring the appellant from the post
Appointment based on the recommendation of a search committee, constituted contrary to the provisions of the UGC Regulations, is illegal and void ab initio: Supreme Court
Supreme Court: In an appeal filed against the judgment passed by the Kerala High Court, wherein the division bench of
Kerala High Court grants interim bail to Srilankan refugees accused of illegally immigrating to Canada via Sea
Kerala High Court: In bail applications filed by the accused persons for offences under Sections 511 and 370 read with
Kerala High Court set aside Chancellor’s communication asking the VCs of eight Universities in Kerala for their resignation and termination
Kerala High Court: In writ petitions filed by Vice Chancellors (VC) of eight Universities in Kerala alleging that the Chancellor
Kerala High Court | Bail can be sought under POCSO Act, when offence has been alleged under POCSO Act as well as SC/ST Act
Kerala High Court: In a conflict between the manner and forum for filing an application for bail when offences under
Kerala High Court quashes proceedings against CM Pinarayi Vijayan and 11 other CPI(M) leaders protesting for withdrawal from free trade agreement between India and the ASEAN
Kerala High Court: In a case relating to a complaint for offences under Sections 143, 147, 149 and 283 of
Kerala High Court confirms pre-arrest bail order to Civic Chandran; Expunged ‘provocative dress’ remark of Kozhikode Sessions Court
Kerala High Court: In a criminal miscellaneous petition filed to set aside the order granting pre-arrest bail by the Sessions
Kerala High Court | ‘Solemnisation of marriage’ is the consideration for registering marriages under the Kerala Registration of Marriages Rules and not ‘religion of the parties’
Kerala High Court: In a writ petition filed being aggrieved by the refusal of registration of marriage by the Registrar