Case and counter case conundrum | Madras High Court refers issue to a larger Bench

Case and counter case conundrum | Madras High Court refers issue to a larger Bench

Madras High Court. | Photo Credit: PICHUMANI K The Madras High Court has referred to a larger Bench the issue of deciding how the police and the trial courts should deal with complaints and counter complaints in which the aggressor and the victim end up playing role reversal by presenting two different narrations about the … Read more

Come up with SOP for conducting weddings inside temples, Madras HC tells HR&CE Department

Come up with SOP for conducting weddings inside temples, Madras HC tells HR&CE Department

A mass wedding being conducted by HR&CE department at the Sri Abirami Amman Temple in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. File photo for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Madras High Court on Thursday, March 14, 2024, wanted to know whether the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department will come up with a … Read more

TMC(M) moves Madras High Court for allotment of bicycle symbol in 2024 general election

TMC(M) moves Madras High Court for allotment of bicycle symbol in 2024 general election

G.K. Vasan | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar), represented by its president and former Union Minister G.K. Vasan, has approached the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to allot the bicycle symbol to it during the general election this year. In an affidavit filed in … Read more

Enforcement Directorate searches premises of realty firm in Chennai

Enforcement Directorate searches premises of realty firm in Chennai

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday, January 19, 2024, launched searches at the premises of Syvanus King Peter, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ocean Lifespaces India Private Limited, in Chennai. According to police sources, the Central agency opened an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) based on a case registered by the Central Crime Branch … Read more

Madras High Court stays investigation against former DGP R. Natraj falsely accused of sharing derogatory content on social media

Madras High Court stays investigation against former DGP R. Natraj falsely accused of sharing derogatory content on social media

The judge granted the interim stay after being prima facie satisfied that a malicious complaint had been lodged with an ulterior motive. | Photo Credit: File photo The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed the investigation being conducted by the Tiruchi cyber crime police against former Director General of Police (DGP) R. Natraj, 72, for … Read more

New Chief Justices appointed to Madras, Bombay High Courts

New Chief Justices appointed to Madras, Bombay High Courts

Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala, who is officiating as the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, has been appointed as the the Chief Justice of Madras High Court while Justice Ramesh D. Dhanuka has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, the Law Ministry notified on Friday. Justice Dhanuka, will have the shortest … Read more

Top Tamil Nadu news developments today

Top Tamil Nadu news developments today

Pudukottai Collector Kavitha Ramu interacting with a woman at Vengaivayal village in Pudukottai district on Tuesday where faeces were found floating in a overhead water tank supplying water to the Adi Dravidar families. File photo | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Here are the important developments from Tamil Nadu to watch out for today: Social Justice … Read more

‘Vijayabaskar took money from mining and gutkha firms’

‘Vijayabaskar took money from mining and gutkha firms’

AIADMK leader and former Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Income Tax Department on Thursday told Madras High Court that it had seized “enormous material” indicating that former Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar of the AIADMK had received huge amounts of money from gutkha/pan masala manufacturers and SRS Mining owned by J. … Read more

No illegality in burying bodies even in places not designated as burial grounds in villages, says HC

No illegality in burying bodies even in places not designated as burial grounds in villages, says HC

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by a single judge to exhume all bodies that had been buried on a land classified ‘ Vandi Pathai’ (cart track) in the revenue records of Navakurichi village in Attur taluk of Salem district and relocate the remains to two designated … Read more

Contempt petition by Dhoni | Madras High Court orders IPS officer Sampath Kumar to appear on December 9

Contempt petition by Dhoni | Madras High Court orders IPS officer Sampath Kumar to appear on December 9

MS Dhoni had accused the officer of having made contumacious statements against the Supreme Court and the High Court in a ₹100 crore defamation suit MS Dhoni had accused the officer of having made contumacious statements against the Supreme Court and the High Court in a ₹100 crore defamation suit The Madras High Court on … Read more