Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a plea filed by Twitter Inc, which challenged several blocking and take-down orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently, the Karnataka High Court has strictly warned Magistrates not to deviate from the given guidelines (given below) and gave a warning that doing so would be considered contributing to the already concerning backlogs. In a recent decision, Justice M. Nagaprasanna, Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently the Karnataka High Court held that if the husband denied having a physical relationship, then it will amount to cruelty under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 but not under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal Recently, the Karnataka High Court has recommended the Central Government amend provisions related to criminalizing sexual intercourse with dead bodies in the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Bench held that: “It is high time for the Central Government Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Karnataka High Court held that sexual assault on a woman’s dead body (necrophilia) is not an offence of rape that is punishable under Section 376 of IPC. The Court added that it would not come under Read more