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Kerala Court April 2007 Judgments

Apr 04 2007

Prof. P.J. Kurian, Son of Joseph Vs. State of Kerala

Court: Kerala

Decided on: Apr-04-2007

Reported in: 2007(3)KLT36

ORDERK.R. Udayabhanu, J.1. The revision petitioner/accused in S.C. No. 413/2006 in the file of the Additional Sessions Judge, Thodupuzha has sought for setting aside the order of the court below dismissing his application filed under Section 227 Cr.P.C. seeking discharge and has sought for a total discharge with respect to the proceedings that originated from a private complaint. The petitioner right now is a Member of Parliament elected to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and earlier he had represented five times the Mavelikkara Constituency and once the Idukki Constituency in the House of People (Lok Sabha). He was also Minister of State for Industries in the Union Council of Ministers and also Minister of State for Non-Conventional Energy, in the Union Government in 1996. It is stated that attempts were made entirely due to political animosity to implicate him in a much publicised serial rape case (hereinafter to be referred as Suryanelli case) at the time when he was Minister of...

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Apr 04 2007

Dr. Jose Thomas and ors. Vs. State of Kerala and ors.

Court: Kerala

Decided on: Apr-04-2007

Reported in: AIR2007Ker217

ORDERC.N. Ramachandran Nair, J.1. The connected writ petitions are filed by some of the applicants for admission to various Post Graduate Dental courses in the State for the academic year 2007-2008. While petitioners in W.P. No. 3176/2007 are candidates for admission in the open quota, petitioners in all the three other cases are from service quota claiming admission to seats reserved for service quota. Admissions to Post Graduate Dental courses from service quota were made without conducting entrance examination until the academic year 2005-2006. However, this Court vide judgment in W.P. 3847/2004 produced as Ext. PI (a) in W.P. 3176/2007, following the judgment of the Supreme Court observed that entrance examination is required for selection of in-service candidates also for admission to Post Graduate Dental courses. Obviously following this judgment admissions were made for Post Graduate Dental courses after conducting entrance examination for in-service candidates also for 2005 and...

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Apr 04 2007

Abdulla Vs. Ayisha

Court: Kerala

Decided on: Apr-04-2007

Reported in: II(2007)DMC635

K.T. Sankaran, J.1. The question involved in this Writ Petition is whether the order for payment of maintenance to the minor child and which was directed to be paid to the mother of the child as guardian would be satisfied, if the respondent in the maintenance petition pays the amount directly to the child on her attaining majority.2. In M.C. 143/99 filed by the respondents herein claiming maintenance from the petitioner herein, the Family Court awarded maintenance at the rate of Rs. 500 per month to the first respondent and Rs. 400 each, per month to the respondents 2 to 4, by order dated 12th November, 1999. Five miscellaneous petitions were filed before the Family Court for realisation of the amount of maintenance due for the period from 16.4.1999 to 6.2.2006. The writ petitioner (father of respondents 2 to 4) contended that the paid all the amounts due as per the order in the M.C. to the second respondent. Safeera, who attained majority subsequently and therefore, the miscellaneous...

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