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Wine shop near IIM-Bangalore: commissioner submits report High Court Round-up

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Court adjourns further hearing on the petition

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned further hearing on a petition by a professor and some students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, challenging the permission given by the Excise Department to open a wine shop near the Indian Institute of Management campus.

When the matter came up, advocate K.N. Putte Gowda placed before the court a report of the location of the wine shop.

The court had, on December 14, appointed Mr. Putte Gowda as court commissioner and directed him to file a report on the location of the wine shop.

The court had passed the direction after it was dissatisfied over a sketch produced by the authorities on the location of a wine shop near the Indian Institute of Management campus on Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore.

A Division Bench comprising Justice S. R. Bannurmath and Justice Subash B. Adi, which perused the report, permitted the wine shop owner and the petitioners to file their objections to the report and adjourned further hearing on the matter.

Crime story

A Division Bench comprising Justice S.R. Bannurmath and Justice Subash B. Adi adjourned further hearing on petitions by A.V. Amarnathan, a city-based advocate, against crime-based serials being telecast on private Kannada television channels.

Mr. Amarnathan had contended in his petition that ETV and Udaya TV were telecasting crime-based serials even as investigations into the cases were to be completed.

Such serials, he said, lead to trial by media. Moreover, the channels had flouted an earlier Division Bench order on the telecast of such serials and, therefore, they were liable to be hauled up for contempt.

When the matter came up on Friday, the Bench orally asked Additional Solicitor-General Aravind Kumar on whether the Centre had framed guidelines relating to telecast of programmes on television.

Mr. Kumar replied that there had not been any substantial progress in this regard.

The Bench adjourned further hearing on the case.

Acid victims

A Division Bench headed by Justice S.R. Bannurmath adjourned further hearing on petitions relating to the rehabilitation scheme for acid attack victims.

The State Government had, during the last hearing, placed before the court a scheme for providing relief and rehabilitation to the acid attack victims.

The court had observed that there were certain conditions which needed to be relooked at and asked the petitioners and the Government to go through the scheme and assist it in coming up with a comprehensive package for acid attack victims.

Dismissed

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice B.S. Patil dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by several residents of Sira in Tumkur district.

The petitioners had sought a direction to the authorities to repair and maintain the road from Sira to Andhra Pradesh.

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