A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court held in June 2026 that property a grandfather self-acquired, and which fell to the father in a family partition, remains the father's separate and individual property — it does not take on the character of ancestral property in his hands, and a daughter therefore has no coparcenary right in it by birth. A digest of the holding and the settled line of Hindu-law authority it rests on.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court allowed a person with locomotor disability to be appointed as Assistant Accounts Officer under the PwD quota, holding that suitability cannot be judged on a medical certificate alone but must include a functional assessment of the candidate's actual ability to do the job. A digest of the facts, the holding under the RPwD Act 2016, and what it means for public-employment selection.
Taking suo motu cognizance of an elephant's death by electrocution, a Karnataka High Court Division Bench held that wildlife conservation is a constitutional mandate flowing from Articles 21, 48A and 51A(g). A digest of the suo motu jurisdiction, the constitutional reasoning, and the slate of preventive and accountability directions the Court issued.
In January 2025 the Karnataka High Court rejected an application to return a vessel-recovery petition to the Commercial Court, holding that maritime claims under the Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act 2017 belong to the High Court's admiralty side. A digest of the facts, the forum question, and the lex specialis reasoning.
On 21 February 2026, the Karnataka High Court set aside a CIC order directing disclosure of a husband's income tax returns to his wife under the RTI Act, holding that IT returns are 'personal information' exempt under section 8(1)(j) and issuing gender-neutral guidelines for financial-disclosure discovery in maintenance proceedings.