Kochi: The Kerala High Court directed Bollywood director Priyadarshan's wife Lissy to personally appear on November 12 in a contempt of court case. The Ernakulam district collector has also been asked to be present in the court. Justice B P Ray issued the direction on a contempt petition filed by Lissy's father M P Varkey. The judge said that parties have committed prima facie contempt and directed to showcause why...
11:08 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Coming down heavily on the alcohol menace in Kerala, the High Court has stepped in and in strong words, advised the state government to stop the sale and consumption of liquor before 5 pm. The High Court said, "To accomplish the objective of reduction in consumption, not only sale of liquor should be prohibited until 5 pm by bar hotels, but consumption during working time should be prohibited as...
08:10 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that no liquor will be sold before 5 pm in bars and hotels, in other words make drinking before that time a crime. The court says that the prohibition of liquor during working hours is necessary as it leads to alcoholism and affects work. But it has clarified that only the government can take a final decision after conducting a detailed examination of...
02:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Kochi: Registrar-General of Kerala High Court Kemal Pasha has submitted before the court that the efforts to make Malayalam the language of the court proceedings failed to yield any result even after holding repeated discussions with the state. Kemal Pasha submitted that a committee headed by Justice K K Narendran, in its report on March 24, 1987, had made several recommendations regarding making Malayalam the official language of the courts....
12:29 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Kochi: By no stretch of imagination can the killing of political rivals by hiring contract killers be taken lightly, and such instances need to be strongly condemned and deprecated, observed the Kerala High Court on Tuesday. In recent times, the annihilation of political rivals is on the rise. After a well-hatched conspiracy in such cases, people are hired to do away with political opponents. So the courts are called upon...
12:44 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the Italian marines who killed two Indian fishermen in February this year, purportedly mistaking them for pirates, did not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and are liable to be prosecuted here under Indian penal laws. Appearing before a bench of justices Altamas Kabir and J Chelameshwar, Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerjee said the two armed marines do not enjoy any...
03:13 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court will on Monday hear CPM leader P Jayarajan's bail petition in connection with the Abdul Shukkoor murder case. The court had asked the state government to present its view on the bail petition on Monday. The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to CPM MLA T V Rajesh, who was arrested in connection with the murder of the IUML activist. Rajesh, charged under IPC Section...
11:56 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday declined to stay the ban imposed by the state government on the manufacture, storage and sale of gutka, pan masala and their variants containing tobacco and nicotine. Justice T R Ramachandran Nair passed the order on a batch of petitions filed by the All-Kerala Tobacco Dealers Association and others challenging the ban. The petitioners contended that the ban order is illegal as it...
01:04 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Monday extended till August 8 the stay on the proceedings before a Kollam court against two Italian marines facing murder charge for shooting to death two Indian fishermen off Kerala waters in February. The court had on July 24 stayed the proceedings till Monday. When the matter came up, Justice CT Ravikumar extended the stay and posted the case to August 8 for further...
07:09 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Kochi: In a setback to the states attempts to restrict bar licences, the Kerala High Court on Friday quashed the amendments brought to the Kerala foreign liquor rules under the Kerala Abkari Act deleting three-star hotels from the category entitled for bar licence for retail sale of liquor in the hotels. With this, three-star hotels can also have bar licences. The court also struck down the distance norm which prohibited...
12:49 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed the trial proceedings against the two Italian marines in the fishermen killing case. The marines had approached the court challenging the Kollam Sessions Court order that denied them translated copies of the prosecution documents and eye witnesses' accounts. The High Court issued a notice to the government on the matter. ...
01:14 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Kerala High Court on Friday quashed all charges against Kannada actress Jayamala and astrologer Unnikrishnan in the 2006 Sabrimala case. Jayamala was accused of touching the Sabarimala deity, in violation of temple traditions and offending religious sentiments. The court ruled that the charges were legally invalid. ...
03:14 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the Centre to inform it of the steps being taken to rescue a sailor who has been held hostage by Somali pirates since September 2010. Sailor TB Unnikrishnan was the Second Officer of MT Asphalt Venture, that was hijacked by pirates on September 28, 2010. The court passed the order following a petition by the sailor's wife who had challenged the Centre's...
10:20 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Kochi/Kollam: After 105 days in custody, the two Italian marines, arrested for allegedly gunning down two Indian fishermen off Kerala waters, were on Saturday released on bail as a court in Kollam posted their trial to June 18. Latore Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone walked out of the Borstal prison around 9.30 pm after they fulfilled the stringent bail conditions of the Kerala High Court, prison authorities said. Though the Jail...
12:28 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has pulled up the state government and the Temple Devasom board over the use of elephants during temple festivals. The court issued a notice and sought an explanation for violating norms. CNN-IBN had earlier reported on numerous instances of violation and cases of elephants going on a rampage. A toddler was killed and 25 others injured in a stampede when a tusker ran amok in...
09:00 AM, May 31, 2012
Kochi: After being in jail for almost four months, the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen were on Wednesday granted bail by the Kerala High Court, but with stringent conditions. The Kerala government has to ensure they do not leave the country. The marines, Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, have been asked to pay Rs 1 crore each as a bail bond and two Indians...
09:08 PM, May 30, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Three months after being jailed for allegedly killing two Indian fishermen, the Kerala High Court granted bail to two Italian marines on Wednesday. The court asked the marines to deposit Rs 1 crore as personal bond. But the Italians cannot leave Kochi as their passports are with the police. The court also asked two Indians to stand as surety for the Italian marines. The Italian marines' lawyer Rajender Nair...
02:32 PM, May 30, 2012
Kochi: Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by the Italian Government seeking quashing of the FIR against two of its marines, who allegedly shot dead two Indian fishermen off the state coast in February and slapped a cost of Rs one lakh on it. Dismissing the petition, Justice PS Gopinathan said Kerala Police has the jurisdiction to register the case since the incident occurred in the territorial waters...
05:24 PM, May 29, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two Italian marines lodged in the Central Prison here for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen, would be shifted to Kochi. This was decided by the state government on Wednesday in view of the Supreme Court direction to it to take a stand on the plea of the Italian authorities to move the marines away from the Central Prison. Borstal school, where the two marines will be kept...
11:01 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding Italy's unhappiness over the "unacceptable nature of the judicial developments" involving two of its marines, India on Tuesday made it clear that it will not "interfere" in the trial of two Italians facing murder charges in Kerala. "The judicial process is on and the Government of India is never known to interfere in tha process," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said when asked about framing of murder...
06:07 PM, May 22, 2012
