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

IIT Madras develops NeoStand, customisable electric standing wheelchair – ET HealthWorld

IIT Madras develops NeoStand, customisable electric standing wheelchair – ET HealthWorld

Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has developed India’s most customisable electric standing wheelchair, which has been developed indigenously for the benefit of wheelchair users. The ‘NeoStand’ was launched at the campus in the presence of Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, eminent dignitaries, generous supporters of this project, faculty, researchers and … Read more

Deposit Savukku Media’s revenue in court, Madras High Court directs YouTube LLC

Deposit Savukku Media’s revenue in court, Madras High Court directs YouTube LLC

YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar Observing that YouTubers do not possess a licence to tarnish the reputation of others by levelling wild and baseless allegations, the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed YouTube LLC to deposit in the court, the entire revenue earned by Savukku Media Private Limited through videos in which ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar … 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

A pioneering law that helped to open libraries across the State of Madras

A pioneering law that helped to open libraries across the State of Madras

The Connemara Public Library, established in 1860, became the first ever public library in 1896. After the Act came into force, it became the State Central Library on April 1, 1950.  | Photo Credit: R. RAGU The Anna Centenary Library (right), inaugurated by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on September 15, 2010, is also the State … Read more

Madras High Court reserves orders on Senthilbalaji’s bail plea

Madras High Court reserves orders on Senthilbalaji’s bail plea

V. Senthilbalaji  | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved its orders on a plea by former Minister V. Senthilbalaji to grant him bail in a money laundering case. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) had arrested him in the case on June 14, 2023 and he remains in judicial custody since … 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

Judgement after retirement | Supreme Court criticises former Madras High Court judge T. Mathivanan

Judgement after retirement | Supreme Court criticises former Madras High Court judge T. Mathivanan

Justice T. Mathivanan, former judge, Madras High Court | Photo Credit: KUMAR SS Madras High Court former judge T. Mathivanan has come to the adverse notice of the Supreme Court for having pronounced only a single-line order in open court in a criminal case and then releasing a detailed judgement running to 114 pages nearly … Read more

Formula 4 night street race in Chennai | Madras High Court to pass orders on February 16

Formula 4 night street race in Chennai | Madras High Court to pass orders on February 16

A debris fence installed as a safety measure on Sivananda Salai in Chennai as part of preparations for the Formula 4 night street race that was originally scheduled to be held in December 2023, but was subsequently postponed | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran The Madras High Court on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, said that it … Read more

Beach sand mining cases | Madras High Court to commence final hearing from March 11

Beach sand mining cases | Madras High Court to commence final hearing from March 11

Representational image. File | Photo Credit: N. Rajesh The Madras High Court on Monday, February 12, 2024 decided to commence from March 11 the final hearing on a huge of batch of cases related to alleged illicit beach sand mining in Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari districts and the blanket mining ban in the State since … Read more