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The election petition was filed by one G Swamy contending that while Jagaluru assembly constituency is reserved for Scheduled Tribe, Devendrappa does not belong to Scheduled Tribe as claimed but belongs to the Other Backward Community.

Justice Anant Ramanath Hegde observed this while partly allowing an appeal arising out of a property dispute from Mysuru.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice K V Aravind said that the directions to deal with Waqf properties in particular manner or otherwise cannot become a subject matter of PIL when the field is occupied by a law – The Waqf Act, 1995.

A division bench comprising Justices R Devdas and G Basavaraja said this while dismissing a writ appeal filed by the Urban Development Department and Deputy Commissioner of Vijayapura district.

A statement released by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority stated that an amount of Rs 2,248 crore was settled as compensation/relief during the Lok Adalat held across the state.

Justice M Nagaprasanna said that the provision pertaining to police custody under section 187(3) of BNSS in juxtaposition to section 167(2) of the earlier regime, the CrPC, has not changed the purpose.

The court directed the state to produce all the records pertaining to the main four accused, their participation in the investigation or any bail secured by them.

The court passed this order in the petition filed by Mugil Anbu Vasantha, seeking a direction for admission to three years LLB course as well as for implementation of Karnataka State Policy on Transgenders, 2017.

Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this order allowing the interlocutory application (IA) filed by Satish Sail, the sitting Congress MLA from Karwar, who was convicted and sentenced in cases related to theft and illegal export of iron ore.

Justice Suraj Govindaraj gave this direction while quashing the December 6, 2024 notification issued by the university asking the students to take up repeat examinations in BNS.