Shivamalatesh v. the State through and Anr.

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Record severely degraded: nearly the entire judgment body renders as U+FFFD replacement characters, and the residual ASCII fragments do not yield verbatim-groundable case number, bench, parties, advocates, dates, statutory references, issues, holdings or outcome. The only reliably extractable datum is the issuing court, shown on the signature block as 'HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA' (para 15). The file is digitally signed by one Shivakumar Hiremath (para 14), but the text does not state whether the signer is a bench member, so no coram is asserted. Treat this record as incomplete and obtain a clean copy of the judgment before citing.