Category: Madras High Court

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a young widow who was denied home loan insurance by a private firm despite having lost her 39-year-old husband due to a cardiac arrest when he was behind the wheels of his car on his way to office in Abu Dhabi in

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Monday accepted a request made on behalf of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram and permitted him to appear before it on February 7 for cross examination in a case challenging his victory from the Sivaganga Parliamentary constituency in 2009 by a margin of 3,354 votes. Justice Pushpa

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has stayed the execution of a warrant issued by a Mahila Court in Coimbatore on Monday for hanging to death R. Manoharan, convicted for abduction, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl apart from the murder of her seven-year-old brother, after subjecting him to sodomy, in Coimbatore on

Source – thehindu.com The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the recently released 13 life convicts in the Melavalavu massacre case to stay in Vellore district and not enter the region in Madurai district, till the disposal of the writ petition. The life convicts were recently released by the government on account of

Source – newindianexpress.com VIRUDHUNAGAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered Virudhunagar District Magistrate to submit a detailed report on a complaint that alleges 35 Dalit students, who were made to clean school toilets and were beaten up, were not given compensation under the provisions of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Source – thehindu.com In a major relief to commuters heading towards Villupuram, the long-pending work on a rail overbridge at Arumparthapuram, which had been suspended since 2017, resumed on Sunday. The Madras High Court vacated an interim stay recently, paving the way for the resumption of the project. The foundation stone for the ₹28.98-crore bridge

Source – scroll.in Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi was sworn in as the chief justice of the Madras High Court on Monday, PTI reported. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office to Sahi at a ceremony held in Raj Bhavan. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal were also present

Source – The Madras High Court has ordered the Accident Claims Tribunal to enhance the compensation awarded by Rs 5 lakh in a case involving the death of a teenager by an MTC bus. Under the original compensation, MTC was ordered to pay Rs 7 lakh as compensation to the family of the deceased. According

Source – swarajyamag.com The Madras High Court warned that the Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police (DGP) would face consequences if its directives in the idols theft cases were not adhered to in letter and spirit. The court was hearing a contempt of court petition filed by retired Inspector General of Police, A G Ponn Manickavel — who

Source – The new Chief Justice of Madras High Court Amreshwar Pratap Sahi found himself flooded with requests from the Bar right on the first day of his assumption of office and the requests ranged from adequate representation for women in elevation as judges of the court to construction of an automated multi-level vehicle parking