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Man taken to task for deserting wife

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday took to task a resident of Srirampura for deserting his wife and then filing a habeas corpus petition seeking a direction to the police to trace his wife.

A Division Bench comprising Justice Chidanand Ullal and Justice A.S. Pachhapure dismissed a habeas corpus petition by Krishnamurthy R., and asked him to refrain from filing such cases.

The Bench observed that Krishnamurthy had lived in Bangalore for 14 years with Varalakshmi after their marriage in 1994. It noted that Krishnamurthy and Varalakshmi had a son and daughter. Varalakshmi is deaf and dumb. The Bench was told that Krishnamurthy had run away from home and that he had filed a habeas corpus petition claiming that his wife and children were spirited away by his father-in-law on February 21, 2008 when he was admitted to hospital due to some illness.

The Bench said there is no merit in the case and dismissed it.

Admitted

A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice, Cyriac Joseph and Justice B.V. Nagaratna admitted a public interest litigation (PIL) petition against the decision of the Directorate of Textbooks to hand over to private persons printing of some school textbooks.

The Bench did not entertain the submissions of the government advocate justifying its action in asking private printers to print the textbooks. It admitted the petition and ordered issue of notices to the State and other respondents and adjourned further hearing on the case.

No quota

A Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice Cyriac Joseph, and Ms. Justice Nagaratna dismissed a petition by several ex-servicemen seeking relaxation of marks in selection of civil judges (junior division).

The Bench said the petitioners had failed to obtain 40 marks in each of the subject and, therefore, were not called for interview and viva voce. It said the petitioners neither belonged to the Scheduled Castes nor to Scheduled Tribes to claim any concession.

It said there was no factual or legal basis for their claim for reservation. As they had not obtained the requisite marks, there was no question of inviting them to the interview, it said and dismissed their petition.

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