Source: thehindu.com Religious and linguistic minorities do enjoy a constitutional right to establish and administer educational institutions but that does not mean medical and engineering seats surrendered by them to the government pool should also be filled up only by students from the specific minority communities concerned, the Madras High Court has held. Justice G.
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the state government to constitute within two months a Sugarcane Control Board under section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase Price) Act and also frame rules, to fix the price to be payable by sugar mills for ryots for the sugarcane purchased. Justice R.Suresh
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: Division bench of the Madras High Court has enhanced the compensation of Rs 45.29 lakh awarded by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal to a whopping Rs 1.06 crore payable to the wife of a private company official, who died in a road accident, eight years ago. A bench of Justices N Kirubakaran
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has said, “Customary divorce can never be approved nor recognized by law. The Hindu Marriage Act, which was enacted in the year 1955, recognized such customary divorce and now, after a lapse of 64 years, the practice of granting customary divorce can never be adopted nor be followed and
Source: thehindu.com The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday directed the Southern Railway to conduct a survey with the assistance of experts and install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in railway coaches/compartments for the purpose of providing adequate security to women, children and elderly passengers. Justice S.M. Subramaniam directed the Southern Railway to formulate guidelines
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: While quashing the proceedings against 92 persons, who were affected by Gaja cyclone, pending before the lower court, for allegedly raising slogans and conducting a Dharna when the state machinery was carrying relief works in Nagapattinam district, the Madras high court has dismissed another petition from 33 persons, which sought to quash an
Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: Holding that a rank third party to the proceedings who is neither a victim nor an aggrieved person, cannot be permitted to prosecute criminal proceedings, the Madras high court has dismissed a petition, which challenged an order of the lower court, dismissing a complaint relating to an alleged custodial death. Dismissing the petition
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has denied anticipatory bail to journalist Prakash M Swamy who apprehended arrest in connection with a case of alleged sexual abuse. The complainant, a Chennai-based actor, had accused him of sexually abusing her in 2018. According to prosecution, the petitioner offered to redress some issue in the complainant son’s
Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI : The Central government submitted before the Madras High Court on Tuesday that it ‘returned’ the bills from Tamil Nadu seeking exemption from NEET-based medical admission in September 2017 itself. While so far it was believed that the bills sent by Tamil Nadu were pending for President’s approval, earlier this month the
Source: ndtv.com Chennai: President Ram Nath Kovind Friday advocated translating high courts’ judgements into vernacular languages so that people are able to understand them. “Over the years, our understanding of law and its applications has become larger and sophisticated,” he said addressing a special convocation of the state-run Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University. Yet,
