Case Law Analysis
|Karnataka High Court
Judicial Independence as Basic Structure | State’s Constitutional Duty to Provide Residential Accommodation for Judges Upheld : Karnataka HC Dismisses PIL Against Land Allotment
Karnataka High Court reaffirms judicial independence as a basic structure of the Constitution, holding that the State is constitutionally obligated to provide residential accommodation for judges. The Court dismissed a PIL challenging the allotment of 7 acres of KVAFSU land for judicial residences and a Super-Speciality Hospital, emphasizing that policy decisions on land use for judicial infrastructure fall outside judicial review.