Tag: Madras High Court

Source: thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Wednesday made it clear that it was absolutely not interested, at any point of time, in addressing a plea made by two public interest litigation (PIL) petitioners to link Aadhaar or any other government authorised identity proof with social media accounts held by individuals. Justices S. Manikumar and

Source: newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday quashed a case filed against a city resident who was charged with raping his 11-year-old daughter and instead ordered a probe against his wife for filing what the court termed a false case.  Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who got agitated during the hearing, said that the woman

Source: ndtv.com CHENNAI:  Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and his wife today approached the Madras High Court terming as “erroneous” transfer of a case against them from an Economic offences court to a special one trying criminal cases related to MPs and MLAs. Karti Chitrambaram said he was not a lawmaker at the time of the

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has held that the entries made in the service register based on the documents produced by an employee at the time of the appointment and recruitment cannot be altered unless applications are filed in time together with such supporting documents before the competent authority to enable the latter to

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: The Madras high court has dismissed a batch of petitions relating to regulating the devotees darshan and ensure their safety and provide all basic needs and amenities to the devotees who come for darshan to Arulmigu Athi Varathar of Arulmigu Devaraja Swamy Temple in Kancheepuram district. A division bench comprising Justices S.Manikumar and