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Madras HC brings curtains down on special courts established in 2011 for exclusive trial of land grab cases

The Madras High Court has brought the curtains down on special courts that were established across the State in 2011, during the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) regime led by the then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, for exclusively trying cases of land grabbing

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No answers even months after atrocity

The Dalit victims at Vengaivayal village in Pudukottai deserve justice

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‘Fair and Remunerative Price’ fixed by Centre for sugarcane is not a fair market price at all, says Madras High Court

In a judgement that has come as a shot in the arm for sugarcane farmers, the Madras High Court has said the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) fixed by the Centre for their produce was in reality not the fair market price at all, and that small and marginal farmers…

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Upload revised alignment map on website within 24 hours, Madras High Court directs Chennai Metro Rail Limited

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) to upload on its website, a map of the realigned route, finalised between Madhavaram Milk colony and Murari Hospital, after it the giving up the earlier plan to take a circuitous route to establish the Thapalpetti metro station…

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Consider making it mandatory for private schools to only purchase buses built by authorised builders, Madras High Court directs T.N.

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to consider a representation made by a public interest litigant, and ascertain if it would be possible to make it mandatory for all private schools to purchase only buses that had bodies built by builders authorised by the Automotive Research…

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Madras High Court refuses to issue omnibus direction to Magistrates to adhere to prescribed timeframe in cases of possession of secured assets

The Madras High Court has refused to issue a direction to its Registrar General to circulate a notification requiring all subordinate courts in Tamil Nadu to strictly adhere to the prescribed timeframe while assisting banks and financial institutions to take possession of secured assets, under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of…

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PIL in Madras High Court wants T.N. to identify coastal erosion-prone areas and construct shore wedge reefs

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court, seeking a direction to the State government to identify the vulnerable places that are prone to coastal erosion, and to construct shore wedge reefs, besides carrying out sand nourishment as expeditiously as possible in order to save…

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Law student moves Madras High Court complaining about “exorbitant” enrolment fees demanded by Bar Council of T.N. and Puducherry

A student of the Tamil Nadu National Law University in Tiruchi has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court against the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry’s (BCTNP) insistence that law graduates belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes pay ₹11,100 and others, ₹14,100 to get enrolled with…

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Former Madras High Court judge begins probe into Vengaivayal incident

Former Madras High Court judge M. Sathyanarayanan, the one-man commission appointed by the Madras High Court to probe the incident of human faeces being found in an overhead tank that supplied water to Scheduled Caste residents of Vengaivayal in Pudukkottai district in December last year, on Saturday set in motion…

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After all, the world is theirs too, says Madras High Court while issuing a slew of directions to make public transport accessible to the disabled

“After all, the world is theirs too,” the Madras High Court has remarked while issuing a slew of directions to the Government of Tamil Nadu, the State Transport Corporations and private bus manufacturers to make for making public transport accessible to persons with disabilities, the aged, the pregnant women and…

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National Commission for Scheduled Castes cannot pass permanent/interim injunction orders, rules Madras High Court

The National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) can exercise the power of civil courts only for the limited purpose of summoning individuals, requiring production of documents, receiving evidence on affidavits and so on but not for issuing permanent or interim injunctions, the Madras High Court has ruled.

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Madras High Court clears decks for release of Vijay Antony-starrer ‘Pichaikkaran 2’

The Madras High Court on Friday, cleared the decks for the release of Vijay Antony starrer ‘Pichaikkaran 2’ by dismissing an application by V. Rajaganapathy of Mangadu Amman Movies, urging the court to injunct the release of the movie on the grounds that it infringed his copyright over the storyline.

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PIL in Madras High Court seeks a ban on multilingual movie The Kerala Story

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for banning the multilingual movie The Kerala Story

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Laying of foundation stone for Kallakurichi Collectorate on temple land even before acquiring it was indeed illegal, says Madras HC

The Madras High Court has agreed that it was illegal on the part of former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami to have laid the foundation stone in October 2020 for construction of Kallakurichi Collectorate complex on 34.817 acres of land owned by Ardhanareeswarar temple

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Division Bench stays single judge’s order restraining CMRL from felling trees without the nod of panel formed by him

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday stayed a single judge’s March 27 order restraining Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) from felling any tree in any park situated on the corridors falling in the ongoing phase II project in the city without obtaining express approval from a…

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Madras High Court grants interim relief to American International School Chennai

The Madras High Court on Friday, April 28, granted interim relief to American International School Chennai (AISC) on a writ petition filed by it challenging the applicability of the Tamil Nadu Private Schools (Regulation) Act of 2018 which came into force this year pursuant to the framing of the statutory…

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Summer respite: Madras High Court dispenses with requirement for lawyers to wear black robes

The Madras High Court has relaxed the dress code required to be maintained by lawyers and said that wearing of black robes would be optional from April 1 to June 30 every year, to provide some respite from the summer heat.

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Madras High Court stays T.N. government’s order permitting serving of liquor at sporting events

The Madras High Court on Wednesday stayed the operation of a Government Order (GO) issued on March 18 permitting serving of liquor to guests at national or international conferences/summits to be held at conference halls, convention centres (other than those in educational institutions) and in other venues such as stadia…

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Madras High Court directs Kalakshetra Foundation to frame policy to prevent sexual harassment, gender discrimination

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed Kalakshetra Foundation to frame a policy against gender discrimination and sexual harassment of staff as well as students of colleges and schools run by it in Chennai, and ordered that the complaints committee related to schools must have parents as well as teachers’…

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T.N.’s law against online gambling | Madras High Court to hear on April 27 pleas challenging validity

The Madras High Court, on Wednesday, agreed to hear on April 27, a batch of cases filed by online gaming companies challenging the validity of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act, 2022, for which Governor R.N. Ravi had granted his assent on April…

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High Court dismisses appeal preferred against legal heirship certificate issued to M.A.M.R. Muthiah

The Madras High Court has dismissed a writ appeal preferred by M.A.M. Ramaswamy Chettiar of Chettinad Charitable Trust challenging a single judge’s refusal to quash a legal heirship certificate issued by a tahsildar to M.A.M.R. Muthiah in his capacity as the adopted son of Ramaswamy Chettiar.

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PIL plea in High Court insists on upgrading government elementary schools into schools of excellence

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the State government to upgrade all government schools, imparting elementary education, into schools of excellence so that it need not pay crores of rupees every year to the private schools under the Right of…

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HC directs State govt. to proceed with ₹709.60 crore Lower Bhavani Project renovation from May 1

The Madras High Court has directed the State government to proceed with the ₹709.60 crore project for extension, renovation and modernisation of Lower Bhavani Project (LBP) system from May 1 since it was reported that the release of water in the canal would be stopped after the present irrigation period…

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Madras High Court clears decks for a private firm to prosecute a defamation suit filed against Subramanian Swamy in Singapore High Court

The Madras High Court has cleared the decks for Advantage Strategic Consulting Singapore Private Limited to prosecute a defamation suit filed against former Union Minister Subramanian Swamy before the High Court of Singapore for having named it in the Aircel Maxis scam.

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Panchami land row: HC asks National Commission of Scheduled Castes to disclose status of complaint against Murasoli Trust

The Madras High Court on Monday directed National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) to disclose by June 13 the status of a complaint lodged with it by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary in 2019 accusing Murasoli Trust, associated with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), of being in possession of…

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