Tag: Madras High Court

Right to travel abroad important, says Supreme Court

Source:- hindustantimes.com. The right to travel abroad is an important basic human right, the Supreme Court said, as it allowed an Indian Police Service officer to travel abroad, permission for which was denied to him due to a pending departmental enquiry. A bench of justices LN Rao and MR Shah also said the right extended to

Supreme Court agrees to look into interim ban on Tik Tok

Source .- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Monday said it will look into the order passed by the Madras High Court directing an interim ban on the video mobile application ‘TikTok’. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi sought urgent listing of the case. He said that the application had been downloaded on a major scale, has numerous

Madras HC says no to protests on Marina Beach

Source – indianexpress.com Agreeing with the Tamil Nadu government’s objection to protests on Marina Beach, the Madras High Court on Monday set aside a petition seeking permission to hold a public meeting at Chennai’s popular beach, which had witnessed a massive protest over Jallikattu in 2017. Allowing an appeal moved by the Tamil Nadu government, a

CBSE mulls challenging Madras High Court order on providing grace marks in NEET for Tamil medium students

Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is contemplating to move the Supreme Court against an order by the Madras High Court granting grace marks to those who wrote this year’s NEET exam in Tamil, sources in the HRD Ministry said today. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had

Madras High Court issues notice to Medical Council of India, JIPMER

Source – financialexpress.com The Madras High Court today issued notice to the Medical Council of India and Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research on a plea seeking a direction to the institute not to allot seats reserved for ‘Puducherry Scheduled Community’ (P-SC) to non-Puducherry SC students. Admitting the plea moved by A Sarandev,

Illegal telephone exchange case: CBI challenges discharge of Maran brothers

Source – indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Three months after a special court for CBI cases discharged former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother Kalanidhi Maran from the decade-old illegal telephone exchange case, the CBI has approached the Madras high court challenging it. Admitting the criminal revision petition, Justice G Jayachandran ordered notice to Maran brothers and seven others accused in the case returnable by June

Madras high court rejects Rajiv Gandhi case convict’s plea for release

Source – hindustantimes.com The Madras High Court on Friday rejected Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Nalini’s plea for premature release. The court had earlier this week said it will pronounce the judgement on Friday on an appeal filed by Nalini, a life convict in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A division bench, comprising Justices

Madras High Court transfers gutkha scam case to CBI

Source – indianexpress.com In a major set back to the Tamil Nadu government, the Madras High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the multi-crore gutkha scam, in which state Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar, DGP T K Rajendran and former Chennai police commissioner S George are named as accused. Transferring the probe to