Tag: Madras High Court
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Madras HC seeks to know how BJP is continuing with yatra without permission
State’s advocate-general Vijay Narayan told a twomember bench of justices M Sathyanarayanan and R Hemalatha that permission was denied for the same, and a communication was sent to the BJP party office about it. “It was not a temple visit but a political rally,” said the advocate general.
November 12, 2020 -
Summons issued against Sourav Ganguly, Kohli for endorsing online gambling platforms
The bench, however, questioned whether cricket does not amount to gambling.
November 4, 2020 -
TN resonates with NEET aspirants’ suicides
Madras HC judge irked by governments announcement of solatium
September 15, 2020 -
Madras HC issues notice to AR Rahman over tax evasion case
The I-T department filed a case saying the foundation did not have a Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license at that time to receive payment from a foreign organisation.
September 12, 2020 -
Court approves low key Ganesh Chaturthi in TN
The court while giving specific instructions on celebrating the event, upholds TN govt’s order prohibiting public celebrations.
August 22, 2020 -
‘Enough evidence of assault on bodies of Jayaraj and Bennix’: Madras HC on Tuticorin custodial deaths
Two police officers 'on wait' and a constable who has been suspended for allegedly trying to block investigations into these custodial deaths in Tuticorin were summoned by the High Court today.
June 30, 2020 -
Curious Justice
Angry over Shankar marrying Kowsalya, who belongs to the dominant Thevar community, Chinnasamy was alleged to have hired a gang of five assailants who had hacked Shankar to death and attempted to murder Kowsalya in broad daylight at Udumalpet in Tamil Nadu on 13 March 2016.
June 26, 2020 -
U-turn by TN
A public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court asserted that lockdown was not a solution to control the spread of Covid-19 and that the number of cases and fatalities due to the disease had gone up considerably notwithstanding successive lockdowns imposed throughout Tamil Nadu since 25 March.
June 18, 2020 -
Why Rajiv Gandhi case convicts can’t video call their relatives, Madras High Court asks Tamil Nadu
The judges wondered as to why the prison authorities were refusing to grant the permission when the state has taken a stand to release all the seven convicts in the case.
June 3, 2020 -
Madras HC declares Jayalalithaa’s nephew and niece as Class II legal heirs of her estate, assets worth 900 cr
The Madras High Court also suggested to the government that it converts a part of late J Jayalalithaa's residence ''Veda Nilayam'' as a memorial suggesting that a part of her residence could also be used as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's office.
May 28, 2020 -
Prosecution of Media
The core ingredient required for prosecution, namely, "defamation of the State," was missing in these cases.
May 25, 2020 -
TN’s Warriors
Encroaching on State’s powers, as the Union Home Ministry has done in the instant case, is not part of its objective.
May 17, 2020 -
‘One cannot control his tears’: Madras High Court on migrant workers crisis
The court grilled both the centre as well as the Tamil Nadu state governments for failing to take care of migrant workers safety and well-being
May 16, 2020 -
Tamil Nadu moves SC against HC order barring counter sale of alcohol
The Madras High Court had on Friday ordered closure of liquor outlets noting that there were huge crowds and no social distancing was being maintained by tipplers.
May 9, 2020 -
A heartless order
Most beneficiaries of private charity are without ration cards, bank accounts or even a fixed home address and fall outside the purview of government agencies. The reason given by the government for this ban order is that non-government agencies are not maintaining “social distancing” properly.
April 20, 2020 -
Rs 510 crore coronavirus aid not adequate for state: Madras High Court to Centre
Impleading the Union Home Ministry as a respondent, the bench in its interim order said out that of 5,194 people infected by coronavirus (in the country), as on date Tamil Nadu stands second with 690 patients.
April 9, 2020 -
Madras HC asks BCCI to reply by March 23 on PIL seeking cancellation of IPL
Among the most followed sports events worldwide, Euro 2020 and Tokyo Olympics 2020 have also been threatened but till now they have not been rescheduled.
March 12, 2020