Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960

The petitioners challenged NLSIU's admission notice dated 03‑09‑2020 which introduced a separate online National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) instead of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) scheduled for 28‑09‑2020. The Court examined whether the petitioners had locus, whether the notice required prior recommendation of th…

The Supreme Court examined a lease granted by the Corporation of the City of Bangalore to the Karnataka Chalana Chitra Kalavidara Sangha, a society of film artists, for constructing a theatre and training school on land earmarked in the Comprehensive Development Plan for a public or semi‑public purpose. The petitioners…

Mahila Samkhya, a Karnataka society, hired Abdul Kareem as a driver on a fixed‑term contract that was renewed for the period 1 November 1997 to 31 October 1999. The society terminated his services on 3 July 1998 invoking clause XIV of his appointment letter, alleging misconduct. The Labour Court held the termination il…

The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) had made a bulk allotment of 604 sites to the Legislators' Housing Co-operative Society between 1981 and 1987 under Section 38B of the Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976. A writ petition challenged the validity of the bulk allotment and the subsequent transfers of those …

The Karnataka government allotted residential sites to members of a charitable society (the Sangha) through lease‑cum‑sale agreements, which were stamped and later, after ten years, converted into absolute sale deeds. The stamp duty on the sale deeds was collected on the market value at the time of execution, with a cr…

The Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society filed an appeal against a Karnataka High Court judgment that struck down its Rule 7A, which automatically terminates an ordinary member’s membership if the annual subscription of Rs.25 is not paid by the end of March. The respondents, former ordinary members, argued that the ru…