Death of remand prisoner in 2019: SHRC recommends compensation to legal heirs

Death of remand prisoner in 2019: SHRC recommends compensation to legal heirs

The State Human Rights Commission on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) recommended that the Tamil Nadu government pay a compensation of ₹3 lakh to the legal heirs of a 60-year-old remand prisoner, who suffered chest pain and was later declared ‘brought dead’ by a hospital in Salem in October 2019. SHRC member V. Kannadasan recommended that … Read more

Morning Digest | ED does not have power to seek police remand: T.N. Minister Senthil Balaji argues in SC; NCW chief meets victims of sexual violence in Manipur, and more

Morning Digest | ED does not have power to seek police remand: T.N. Minister Senthil Balaji argues in SC; NCW chief meets victims of sexual violence in Manipur, and more

Tamil Nadu Minister for Electricity and Prohibition and Excise V Senthil Balaji addressing the media at Secretariat in Chennai. The Minister who is facing money-laundering charges in the cash-for-jobs scam, said on July 26, 2023 in the Supreme Court that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) does not have the power to seek his police custody. | … Read more

DA case: Kurnool Asst. Registrar sent to judicial remand till May 17

DA case: Kurnool Asst. Registrar sent to judicial remand till May 17

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Deputy Superintendent of Police J. Siva Narayana Swamy has said that Department of Cooperation Assistant Registrar P. Sujatha, who was arrested in a disproportionate asset case, was sent to judicial remand till May 17 by the Special Police Establishment (SPE) and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Court. The ACB sleuths searched her house … Read more