The Tamil Nadu government argued before the Supreme Court that existing state laws regulate cattle slaughter under specified conditions and do not impose an absolute statewide prohibition, even in designated slaughterhouses.
A film meant for the big screen ended up reaching millions through the wrong screens instead. As the Madras High Court denies bail to two accused, the piracy trail is only getting deeper.
Justice K Govindarajan Thilakavadi stated that the Waqf Board is required to legally establish ownership over the land.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Tuesday, May 12, mentioned the petition for urgent hearing before Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant. The top court has agreed to list the matter for hearing on Wednesday, May 13.
In yet another major setback for the ruling DMK and former Minister V Senthil Balaji, Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the reported multi-crore transformer procurement scam, resulting in a loss of Rs 397 crore to the exchequer owing to collusive bidding by private entities when he was holding the Electricity portfolio during 2021 to 2023.
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The bench of Justice S Srimathy, while allowing the petition, said that it was unfair to punish someone for reacting to a controversial speech. Justice Srimathy observed that the remarks made by Udhayanidhi amounted to "hate speech”.
The Bench, comprising Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan, took suo motu cognisance of the matter and observed that the proposed launch of the book at the 49th Chennai Book Fair, scheduled for January 8 (Thursday), tended to directly scandalise the judiciary and crossed all limits of fair criticism.
Very recently, the Madras High Court, on 25 October, declared cryptocurrency a ‘property’ of the user. The question for declaring it as a property arose from a recent incident in which an investor, Rhuti Kumar, among other investors, lost savings in WazirX due to a cyberattack on the platform.
The move to impeach a judge of the Madras High Court for a judgment that he had pronounced is patently wrong, because according to the Constitution, a judge of the High Court may be removed by impeachment only on the ground of proven misbehaviour or incapacity, which can hardly be inferred from a single judgement – even if demonstrably wrong.
