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Madras High Court dismisses civil suit alleging Rajinikanth-starring film Enthiran’s script was stolen

The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a civil suit filed by writer Aarur Tamil Nadan in 2010 claiming that the script of Rajinikant-starring film ‘Endhiran’ was stolen from a story penned by him under the title Jugiba in 1996. The civil suit had been filed against the film’s director…

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T.N. Minister Senthilbalaji arrest | Madras High Court agrees to hear habeas corpus petition by Minister’s wife

The Madras High Court on June 15 accepted a request made on behalf of Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthilbalaji’s wife, for an urgent hearing of a habeas corpus petition filed by her accusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of not having followed due procedure while arresting her husband…

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Madras High Court Registrar General sends proposal to Chief Secretary for acquiring 6.51 acres of temple land opposite to Madurai Bench

The Madras High Court’s Registry on Wednesday informed a Division Bench of the High Court of having sent a proposal to the State government on June 10 for acquiring 6.51 acres of temple land situated right opposite to the main entrance to the Madurai Bench of the High Court.

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T.N. Minister Senthilbalaji arrest | Madras High Court judge recuses himself from hearing Minister’s wife’s petition

One of the two judges in a Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday recused himself from hearing a habeas corpus petition (HCP) filed by Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthilbalaji’s wife.

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T.N. Minister Senthilbalaji arrest | Madras High Court agrees to urgent hearing of habeas corpus plea to be filed by Minister’s wife

The Madras High Court on Wednesday agreed to urgently hear a habeas corpus petition to be filed by Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise V. Senthilbalaji’s wife accusing the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) of having arrested him last night without following due procedures.

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PIL plea in Madras High Court opposing felling of trees for Egmore railway station expansion

Pasumai Thayagam Foundation, a non-governmental organisation led by Sowmiya Anbumani, has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court to restrain Southern Railway from felling trees, without following Supreme guidelines, for the expansion of Egmore Railway Station in Chennai

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Panchami land row | Madras High Court grants final opportunity to National Commission for Scheduled Castes to file counter to Murasoli Trust

The Madras High Court on Tuesday granted a final opportunity to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) to file a counter affidavit to a 2020 writ petition moved by Murasoli Trust, associated with the DMK, against an inquiry into a complaint of it occupying over 12 grounds of Panchami…

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Madras High Court to hear on June 15, a contempt plea moved by M.S. Dhoni against IPS officer Sampath Kumar

The Madras High Court on Monday decided to hear on Thursday, a contempt of court petition filed by ace cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni against Indian Police Service (IPS) officer G. Sampath Kumar for having allegedly made contumacious remarks against the Supreme Court and the High Court.

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Activists call Madras HC’s reversal of ban on importing dogs for breeding ‘unnecessary’

Animal activists have flagged concerns over a recent order by the Madras High Court revoking the ban on importing of dogs for breeding.

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Madras High Court sets aside DGFT’s notification imposing a ban on import of dogs

In a judgment that has come as a shot in the arm for dog lovers across the country, the Madras High Court has set aside Directorate General of Foreign Trade’s (DGFT) April 25, 2016 notification imposing a ban on import of dogs into the country.

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Supreme Court seeks detailed report from Madras HC on basic facilities for women lawyers in Nilgiris court

The Supreme Court on June 9 urgently intervened to direct the Registrar General of Madras High Court to file a detailed report on the basic facilities, including washrooms, available for women lawyers at Nilgiris court complex in Tamil Nadu.

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Madras High Court to decide if priests can be appointed before Court-appointed committee identifies Agamic and non Agamic temples in T.N.

The Madras High Court has embarked on an exercise to ascertain whether Tamil Nadu’s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department can be allowed to appoint Archakas (priests) to temples until a committee constituted by the court completes the exercise of identifying Agamic and non Agamic temples in the State.

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Consider engaging additional manpower to implement empty liquor bottle buyback scheme, HC tells Tasmac

Enthused by the response to the empty liquor bottle buyback scheme implemented by Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) in select districts at its instance, the Madras High Court has directed the corporation to consider the feasibility of engaging additional manpower on contract basis to handle those bottles

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HC closes appeals related to privilege proceedings initiated during AIADMK regime against Stalin, 17 other DMK legislators

The Madras High Court closed a batch of writ appeals filed in 2020 by the then Tamil Nadu Assembly Secretary and the Privileges Committee against an interim stay order passed by a single judge in September that year against the breach of privilege proceedings initiated against then Leader of Opposition…

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HC displeased with let down in drive against plastics in the Nilgiris; orders immediate crack down on shops, tourists

The Madras High Court expressed displeasure over the let down in the drive against plastics in the Nilgiris district especially during the summer tourist season and directed the district administration to crack down on shops selling one-time use plastic water bottles as well as tourists carrying such bottles to the…

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POCSO and the persecution of young love

What does rigid implementation or misuse of the POCSO Act mean for consensual relationships between minors?

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Madras High Court sentences four directors of Golden Tobacco Limited to two weeks of simple imprisonment

Four Directors of GTC have been awarded two weeks prision in a contempt suit filed against them

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HC allows DVAC to proceed with probe into irregularities in the award of GCC contracts in 2018

The Madras High Court on Wednesday modified an interim order passed by it on February 25, 2020 and permitted the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) to set the law in motion with respect to irregularities found in the award of tenders by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) in…

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Temple lands can be alienated only if it is necessary, says Madras HC

The Madras High Court has clarified that temple lands can be alienated only after establishing that such alienation is purely in the interest of the temple concerned

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Madras High Court directs its Registry to send proposal to T.N. government to acquire 9 acres of land opposite Madurai Bench

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed its Registry to send a detailed proposal to the Tamil Nadu government within a couple of days, explaining the need to acquire over nine acres of land situated right opposite the main entrance to the Madurai Bench of the High Court, to cater…

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Economic offences are a modern threat to development of the country: Madras High Court

Observing that economic offences were a modern threat to the development of the country, the Madras High Court has refused to allow businessman ‘Aircel’ C. Sivasankaran to visit Seychelles as well as France as he was facing multiple cases that were being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),…

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Madras High Court deplores practice of police personnel, with no knowledge of a case, being sent to court to assist prosecutors

The Madras High Court has directed State Public Prosecutor Hasan Mohamed Jinnah to coordinate with the Director-General of Police (DGP) and ensure that only police personnel with sufficient knowledge about individual cases are sent to court when those cases are heard, in order to provide effective assistance to the prosecution.

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Enact law against honour based caste-crimes in Tamil Nadu: Thol. Thirumavalavan

Enact law against honour based caste-crimes in Tamil Nadu: VCK founder

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Explained | What is the Gokulraj murder case all about?

The Madras High Court, on June 2, 2023, upheld the conviction of 10 men including S. Yuvaraj of Theeran Chinnamalai Gounder Peravai and the life sentence (till death without any remission) of eight of them for beheading a Dalit engineering graduate V. Gokulraj in June 2015, on the mere suspicion…

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Supreme Court stays Madras HC order stalling press communique on Forest Amendment Bill

The Supreme Court on June 2 stayed an order of the Madras High Court which had put on hold a press communique issued by the Centre inviting suggestions on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023, in either English or Hindi.

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