Sri. Manjunath v. the State of Karnataka
Writ Petition (KLGP) – constitutional validity challenge
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru; WP No. 27659 of 2025 (KLGP); decided 06-01-2026; Division Bench of D K Singh and S Rachaiah JJ.; petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution seeking declaration that the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act (Karnataka Act 38 of 2014) is ultra vires the Constitution; respondents included State of Karnataka, Land Grabbing Prohibition Special Court and Tahsildar, Bangalore East Taluk; petitioners and counsel absent on first call and revised call; writ petition dismissed for non-prosecution; no substantive holding on constitutional validity; useful only as a record of dismissal for default, not as authority on the KLGP Act.
What did the court decide?
Neither the petitioners nor their counsel appeared on the first call or on revised call; observing that the petitioners appear to have lost interest in the matter, the Division Bench held it had no option but to dismiss the writ petition for non-prosecution. The constitutional-validity issue framed in the petition was not decided.