{"id":184451,"date":"2008-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-t-nagaraj-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-13-august-2008"},"modified":"2015-07-31T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:25:44","slug":"k-t-nagaraj-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-13-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-t-nagaraj-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-13-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"K T Nagaraj vs State Of Karnataka on 13 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
K T Nagaraj vs State Of Karnataka on 13 August, 2008<\/div>\n
Author: P.D.Dinakaran(Cj) & V.Gopalagowda<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Karnataka High Court K T Nagaraj vs State Of Karnataka on 13 August, 2008 Author: P.D.Dinakaran(Cj) & V.Gopalagowda 3 THE COMMISSi0NER BANGALORE MAI-IANAGARA PAALIKE HUDSGN CIRCLE BANGALORE \u00ab\u00bb 560 002 .. RI=:s=3″x=u:>–2\u00a7z’;1j;E rs*>i*s– _ Q (By Sri AS}-{OK HARANAHALLI, ADVOCATE xfsfoa -R2fi&s 3′,’:F{%5 *1*a;%g}a;~,re~ 19 AND R-12) * M 1 This writ petition is mad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nK T Nagaraj vs State Of Karnataka on 13 August, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court & High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-t-nagaraj-vs-state-of-karnataka-on-13-august-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K T Nagaraj vs State Of Karnataka on 13 August, 2008 - 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