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Mysore Commissioner of Police asked to file affidavit

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court, on Monday, directed Mysore Commissioner of Police Bhaskar Rao, to file an affidavit in a habeas corpus petition.

A Division Bench comprising Justice K.L. Manjunath and Justice Jawad Rahim passed the order after the Commissioner submitted that he did not know how certain documents with a different date came to be filed in the petition.

The Bench asked the Commissioner to file an affidavit and adjourned further hearing on the case.

The Bench pulled up the police for their inaction in other habeas corpus petitions.

In one case, it directed the police to take action against a mason for raping a girl. The Bench noted that the mason was already married and had children. Yet, he had spirited away a girl and raped her.A Division Bench comprising Justice K.L. Manjunath and Justice Jawad Rahim, in an interim order, refused to stay the election to the post of adhakshya and upa-adhakshya of Haveri zilla panchayat.

It, however, directed the authorities not to announce the results of the election.

Passed order

The court passed the order on an appeal by Ningappa who had challenged a single judge order. The single judge had allowed a petition against reservation to the poststo adhakshya and upa-adhakshya.

In his appeal, Ningappa said he belonged to the Scheduled Tribe and that he was elected in 2005 as zilla panchayat member.

He said he wanted to contest the post of adhakshya but found that the Government had arbitrarily changed the reservation on September 27, 2007.

He urged the Bench to quash the notification and also set aside the single judge order.

The Bench noted that it did not want to interfere at this stage with the process of election and asked that the case be posted before a regular Bench.

Posted

Justice Ajit J. Gunjal posted an interlocutory application (IA) by M.A. Lakshmi Thattachar challenging his removal as founder-member of the Academy of Sanskrit Research in Melkote, Mandya district to Tuesday.

The petitioner said the Revenue Department had on September 26, 2007, published a notification under the provisions of the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960, removing him from the post. The Judge posted the IA for hearing on Tuesday.

Dismissed

A Division Bench on Monday dismissed an appeal by the Vice-Chancellor of Women’s University, Bijapur, Syeda Akthar, challenging an inquiry instituted against her.

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