Kerala High Court
Supreme Court | Regulation 153(15) of Kerala Electricity Supply Code, 2014 inconsistent with the provision of Section 126 of Electricity Act, 2003, hence invalid
Rules or regulation cannot be made to supplant the provisions of the enabling Act, but to supplement it. What is permitted is the delegation of ancillary or subordinating legislative functions, or what is fictionally called, a power to fill up details.
Manufacturers of ‘FROOTI’ does not violate Legal Metrology Rules; Kerala High Court quashes complaint
Kerala High Court while deciding the petition against the manufacturers of ‘FROOTI’, interpreted the alleged rules and sections according to the facts, held that the size of MRP and packing date on the plastic bottle of 1.5 litres was in compliance with the Legal Metrology Rules.
[Right to be Forgotten] | Claim for the protection of personal information cannot co-exist in an Open Court justice system; Kerala High Court directs Registrar of the High Court to publish the privacy notices within two months in both English and Malayalam languages on the High Court and District judiciary websites
Kerala High Court while dealing with the issue of deleting personal information from the Judgments, discussed the different facets of right to privacy of individuals and the interest of the public qua judicial institutions. The Court concluded that the right to be forgotten cannot be claimed in current proceedings, but in appropriate cases the Court has power to invoke this right.
Words uttered must be capable of arousing sexually impure thoughts in minds of hearers to satisfy definition of obscenity to attract Section 294(b) IPC; Kerala High Court reiterates
If the act is not obscene, or is not done in any public place, or the song recited or uttered is not in or near any public place or that it caused no annoyance to others, no offence under Section 294(b) of IPC is committed.
Kerala High Court | Teaching experience can be gained only after obtaining the essential qualification necessary for the post of professor
According to a ruling by the Kerala High Court, if there is any requirement of educational qualification for a position then experience for that position will be counted after obtaining the essential qualification and the quality of experience should be same throughout.
Kerala High Court grants anticipatory bail to snake expert Vava Suresh accused of displaying a cobra while delivering speech at a college
Kerala High Court granted anticipatory bail to Wildlife conservationist and snake expert Vava Suresh accused under the Wildlife Protection Act, for displaying a highly poisonous cobra while delivering his speech at a Government Medical College
Bar under Section 33(5) of POCSO Act is not absolute; Kerala High Court allows recalling of child witness for examination for the just decision of the case
Kerala High Court held that child witness can be recalled for examination; bar under Section 33(5) of POCSO Act is not absolute.
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
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