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  • HCKL/3359/2024-DI-1 

    THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA HCKL/3359/2024-DI-1 Kochi : 682 031 Email: [email protected] Phone: 0484 2562985 Date: 02.04.2024 OFFICIAL MEMORAN...
  • HCKL/3335/2024-A3

    THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA HCKL/3335/2024-A3 Kochi - 682 031 Date: 03.04.2024 notification The Full Court in its meeting held on 16.10.2023 has reso...
  • HCKL/2559/2024 - A7

    Compliance of Section 34 of the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 —Directions of the Honourable Supreme Court of India THE HIGH ...
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Latest Judgement

  • Criminal Trial – Police cannot be allowed to tutor the prosecution witness – It amounts to gross misuse of power by the Police machinery and an adverse inference can be drawn against the prosecution.
  • Banking Ombudsman Scheme 2006 – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme 2021 – Banking Regulation Act 1949, S. 35A – The Ombudsman is bound to act in a manner advancing the objects of the Scheme and never in a fashion to defeat the same.
  • Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012, Ss.15(1) & 2(1)(da) – Information Technology Act 2000, S.67B – A close reading of the relevant sections in the POCSO Act and the I.T. Act makes it clear that depiction can only be through artificial intelligence or through a work created to depict the image of a child.
  • Motor Vehicle Taxation Act 1976 (Kerala), S.6 -- G.O.(P)No.18/2004/Tran dated 20.04.2004 -- An application for a refund of Motor Vehicle Tax under Section 6 of the 1976 Act read with the provisions of G.O.(P)No.18/2004/Tran dated 20-04-2004 can only be maintained where the tax in question has been paid in advance and within the due date.
  • Criminal P.C. 1973, Ss.227 & 228 – While passing an order of discharge by allowing the same or dismissing the same the Courts must have to state reasons for passing such orders and an order without recording reasons in the form of cryptic and non-speaking stature would not sustain under the law.
  • Criminal P.C. 1973, Ss.230, 231 & 226 -- The provisions of Sections 230 and 231 Cr.P.C. do not indicate that the issue of process for compelling the production of any document or other thing is confined to any document produced along with the final report.
  • Easements Act 1882, S.4 – The easementary right, is essentially a right claimed by the owner of a land upon another land owned by someone else so that he may enjoy his property in the most beneficial manner.
  • Electricity Act 2003, S.126 – Electricity Supply Code 2014 (Kerala), Reg.134 – Once an adjudication in terms of Section 126 of the 2003 Act is completed, there cannot be any re-opening, revision or review of the same on the premise that a mistake had been committed while demanding the amounts payable.
  • Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002, Ss.3 & 44(1)(b) – Penal Code 1860, S.120B – Criminal P.C. 1973, Ss.200, 201, 202, 203 & 204 – The offence punishable under Section 120B of the IPC could become a scheduled offence only if the conspiracy alleged is of committing an offence which is specifically included in the Schedule to the PMLA.
  • Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2006 – S.O.141(E) dated 15.01.2016 -- Whether quarrying operations carried out without Environmental Clearance but on the basis of the law laid down by the Division Bench in All Kerala River Protection Council v. State of Kerala (2015 (2) KLT 78) could be held to be illegal following the issuance of the notification dated 15.1.2016 -- It cannot be held that the quarrying activities for the period after 15.1.2016 were illegal in any manner for want of Environmental Clearance.
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