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2 held under Explosives Act acquitted

CHENNAI: A special court to deal with Explosives Act cases has acquitted two accused from Madurai who were arrested by the Q branch police after explosives were seized from Piranmalai hills in Sivaganga in 2015.

The Times of India · Feb 9, 2022

Voting for DMK will bring growth and development in Madurai, says Palanivel Thiaga Rajan

Addressing people, ahead of the urban local bodies polls, he said wherever women were given opportunities, the society had benefitted in many spheres

The Hindu · Feb 9, 2022

Centre to reconstitute panel to study origin, evolution of Indian culture

Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan welcomes the move

The Hindu · Feb 8, 2022

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Madras HC tells state to pay Rs 2 lakh relief to ex-serviceman’s kin

MADURAI: The Madras high court has directed the state government to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to the family of an ex-servicemen who was subjected to custodial torture 40 years ago in Madurai district.

The Times of India · Feb 7, 2022

Man killed as bus skids on highway in Trichy

TRICHY: One passenger was killed and 23 others were injured after a private bus in which they were travelling met with an accident on the Madurai - Trichy highway near Panjappur in Trichy in the early hours of Friday.

The Times of India · Feb 5, 2022

Madras high court stays amendment to rules on temple staff

MADURAI: The Madras high court on Friday granted stay on the amendment made to Rule 17 of the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious Institutions Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2020, pertaining to the transfer of temple employees.

The Times of India · Feb 5, 2022

‘Animal Medical Mobile Ambulance service should cover stray animals’

An animal lover from Madurai moved the Madras High Court Bench at Madurai on Friday seeking a direction to the Directorate of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Service to extend the Animal Medical Mobil

The Hindu · Feb 4, 2022

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HC reserves orders on YouTuber’s plea

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday reserved its orders on the petition filed by YouTuber Maridhas seeking quashing of the private complaint against him on the file of the Judicial Ma

The Hindu · Feb 4, 2022

Consider plea to remove damaged electric pole: HC

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed Tangedco, Ramanathapuram, to consider the plea filed by an activist who sought removal of an electric pole said to be in a damaged condition nea

The Hindu · Feb 2, 2022

‘Use anti-slip materials for railway station platforms’

Complaining that granite floor would not be safe for passengers, a Tirunelveli-based citizen welfare forum filed a public interest litigation petition before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court

The Hindu · Feb 2, 2022

‘Fill posts of social workers, psychologists in prisons’

PIL plea says psychological well-being of prisoners is important

The Hindu · Feb 1, 2022

Two FIRs registered against activist quashed

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday quashed two FIRs registered against activist Fatima of Thoothukudi in 2018 and 2021. In 2018, Ms. Fatima and 70 others held a protest, condemning

The Hindu · Feb 1, 2022

Stop draining of water from Mahamaham tank: PIL plea

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State to file a report on a public interest litigation petition that sought a direction to the authorities not to drain water from Ma

The Hindu · Feb 1, 2022

HC quashes FIR against BJP men

The Madras High Court on Tuesday quashed a case booked against P. Saravanan, Madurai district president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and 31 others for having allegedly prevented police from performi

The Hindu · Feb 1, 2022

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The Times of India · Feb 1, 2022

Tamil Nadu cops tried to hide conversion angle, says HC, orders CBI probe

MADURAI: The Madras high court bench here on Monday directed transferring the probe into the death by suicide of a 17-year-old girl, allegedly coerced to convert to Christianity, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The Times of India · Jan 31, 2022

HC asks CBI to take over case of Tamil Nadu girl's suicide

MADURAI: Saying it had a 'duty to render posthumous justice' to a Class XII girl who had committed suicide, triggering public debate of whether there was any attempt by her school to convert her to Christianity, the Madras high court has directed the CBI to take over the investigation.

The Times of India · Jan 31, 2022

Madurai: BJP members among 6 held for disrupting prayer meet

MADURAI: The Madurai city police have arrested six members belonging to the BJP and the Hindu Front outfit for trespassing into a prayer hall on Sunday morning and disrupting the meeting. A video of the incident went viral in social media.

The Hindu · Jan 31, 2022

Court orders CBI probe into Thanjavur schoolgirl’s death case

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court said that since State Ministers had taken a stand and the Thanjavur SP had ruled out the conversion angle, the impression was that the investigation was not proceeding along the right lines

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The Hindu · Jan 29, 2022

Frame charges against those who usurped temple property, HC directs trial court

The court cannot be a mute spectator when public property is converted into private property by creating false documents of title and usurped by individuals, observed the Madurai Bench of the Madras H

The Hindu · Jan 28, 2022

Kamal Haasan releases third list of candidates

Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan on Friday released the third list of 154 candidates for the urban local bodies elections in the Chennai, Tambaram and Madurai Corporations and in the Hosur, Po

The Hindu · Jan 27, 2022

Bail to woman accused of killing her newborn baby

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has granted bail to a woman from Thanjavur district who has been accused of murdering her newborn baby by dumping it in a toilet flush tank at Thanjavur Medi

The Hindu · Jan 26, 2022

‘Madurai Railway Division earned ₹510.35 cr. till December 2021’

Tricolour unfurled at Madurai Railway Divisional Office

The Hindu · Jan 26, 2022

Republic Day celebrated at HC Bench

The 73rd Republic Day was celebrated at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday, with Administrative Judge Pushpa Sathyanarayana unfurling the national flag.The event began with the Ju

The Times of India · Jan 22, 2022

Madras HC restrains police from harassing person who took video of Thanjavur girl alleging religious conversion

MADURAI: Restraining the police officials from harassing the person who had taken the video of a 17-year-old Class XII girl from Thanjavur district in which she made an allegation that she was called upon to convert to Christianity, Madras high court on Saturday observed that the focus of the police…

The Hindu · Jan 21, 2022

CB-CID probe sought into girl’s death

A petition has been filed before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking a CB-CID probe into the death by suicide of a schoolgirl, who was staying in a hostel run by a Christian missionary

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