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Karnataka Sexual Minorities Forum versus State of Karnataka & Ors. (2017), a case of the Karnataka High Court, which resulted in an amendment of Section 36A of the Karnataka Police Act, which categorized the intersex, non-binary gender and transgender individuals as predisposed to criminal activity.
The High Court is a court of record and can prosecute for contempt of itself. [6] The Karnataka High court has two permanent benches at Hubballi-Dharwada and Kalaburagi. The permanent Karnataka high court bench at Hubballi-Dharwada became operational on 24 August 2013 and Kalaburagi on 31 August 2013. [7]
2. In December 2020, Karnataka Lok Adalat and Karnataka High Court jointly by resolving 2,61,882 in a single day through mega Lok Adalat, created a record. [13] 3. In August 2021, Karnataka Lok Adalat, through Mega Lok Adalat settled 3,244 cases in Udupi district and 5,235 cases in Dakshina Kannada. [14]
Thus cases built up during this interim period are judged when the circuit court is in session. According to a study conducted by Bangalore-based N.G.O, Daksh, on 21 high courts in collaboration with the Ministry of Law and Justice in March 2015, it was found that average pendency of a case in high courts in India is 3 years. [2]
It also instructed the High Court to get written statements from the newly appointed prosecutor of the case by Karnataka government. [20] The Karnataka government appointed B. V. Acharya. [21] On 11 May 2015, Jayalalithaa was acquitted of all charges by the Karnataka High Court, causing wild celebrations by supporters. [22]
The absolute sanctioned number of judges was 34 in Supreme Court, 1108 in high courts, and 24,631 in district courts. [16] The law commission of India and Justice V S Malimath Committee had recommended in the past to raise the number of judges to 50 judges per million population, or 20,000 population per judge.
On 24 March 1982, the Government of Karnataka approved the demolition of the Attara Kacheri and the construction of a new court building on the site. [4] A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Karnataka High Court, pleading for the demolition to be cancelled. The case – B. V. Narayan Reddy v.
He also served as secretary to the Chief Justice and Registrar (Vigilance) of the High Court. [3] In June 2015, D'Cunha was appointed the registrar general of the Karnataka High Court. [4] On 11th Nov 2016, D'Cunha was appointed a judge in the Karnataka High Court. [5] [6] He retired from the Karnataka High Court on 6 April 2021 upon ...