Madras High Court
Court Can't Be A Mute Spectator & Permit Perpetuation Of Untouchability: Madras High Court On Denial Of Temple Entry To SC Community Members
Lamenting that even after 75 years of Independence, there are instances of denial of temple entry to persons belonging to a particular community, the Madras High Court said that it can not be a mute spectator and allow such instances to continue. “A few persons claiming to be superior to the members of the petitioner community only by reason of their birth into a particular community...
Madras High Court Quashes COTPA Proceedings Filed Against Actor Dhanush For Film Poster Showing Him Smoking Cigarette
The Madras High Court on Monday quashed criminal proceedings under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, initiated against Actor Dhanush, Director Aishwarya Rajnikanth and others by one Cyril Alexander for showing the actor smoking a cigarette in the posters of the...
Identify Cases Involving Consensual Relationship Of Minors, Will Consider Quashing Them If Against Their Interest, Future: Madras High Court To Police
The Madras High Court has directed the State Police to ascertain the number of pending cases before the Courts/Juvenile Justice Boards involving consensual relationships of minor children. The court said that the same would allow it to deal with the cases and quash the proceedings, in appropriate cases, if found to be against the future and interest of the children or if found to be an...
Come Up With SOP For Conducting Potency Test By Collecting Blood Sample, Mechanism Of Collecting Sperm Is A Method Of Past: Madras High Court
Noting that the Potency Test in cases involving sexual offences are still being conducted by collecting sperm from the offender, the Madras High Court has directed the authorities to come up with a standard operating procedure for conducting potency tests using blood samples.The division bench of Justice Anand Venkatesh and Justice Sundar Mohan said its wants to ensure that the Two-Finger...
'Wife' Entitled To Maintenance Under Section 125 CrPC Even If Marriage Was Not Legal: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently held that even if a marriage was not legal due to the existence of a first marriage, the second wife and the children born out of the second marriage will be entitled to maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. “This Court is of the clear view that for the purpose of Section 125 Cr.P.C, the first petitioner can very well...
Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 03 to July 09
A weekly round-up of important cases from the Madras High Court Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 182 To 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 191 NOMINAL INDEX Pastor Gideon Jacob v State and Others, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 182 A Ayyanar v The General Manager, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 183 Megala v. State, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 184 Prasoon Mishra v State, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 185 Carunia Seelavathi...
Senthil Balaji Case: Madras High Court Frames Points Of Difference In Split Verdict, To Hear Arguments On July 11
Justice CV Karthikeyan of the Madras High Court on Friday framed the points of difference of opinion in the split verdict delivered by a division bench of the Court on July 4th in the habeas corpus petition filed by Megala, wife of Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on June 14, in a money laundering case under PMLA.Justice Karthikeyan...
Police Can Register FIR For Non-Payment Of Maintenance As It Amounts To Economic Abuse, Breach Of Protection Order Under DV Act: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has ruled that non-payment of maintenance amount is a breach of protection order under Section 18 of the Act and registration of an FIR on that ground is lawful. Justice KK Ramakrishnan of the Madurai bench observed that Section 31 of the Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act was enacted to ensure social justice and to regulate the violator of...
Merely Because A Tomb Has Been In Existence For More Than 100 Years Not A Ground To Declare It As Protected Monument: Madras High Court
While ordering relocation of the tomb of David Yale and Joseph Hymners from the Madras Law College compound, located within the court premises, to any other appropriate place, the Madras High Court noted that merely because the tomb has been in existence for more than 100 years can not be the sole reason to declare it as a protected monument under Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites...
Madras High Court To Take Up Habeas Corpus Plea Against Senthil Balaji’s Arrest On Friday
Following a split verdict in the habeas corpus plea challenging Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji's arrest by Enforcement Directorate, the Madras High Court will take up the matter on Friday. However, the court is unlikely to begin hearing of arguments on Friday as it today suggested that the matter could be posted on Saturday.A bench of Justice J Nisha Banu and Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy...
Madras High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Release Of Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Convict Srikaran From Foreigners Detention Centre
The Madras High Court has issued notices to the Foreigners Regional Registration Office, the Secretary of Public (Foreigners) Department, and the Tiruchirappalli District Collector on a plea filed by S Nalini, convict in Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case, for release of her husband Srikaran, a co-convict, from the Foreigners Detention Centre in Tiruchirappalli. Justice N...
Madras High Court Declares Election Of AIADMK MP P Ravindranath Null And Void
The Madras High Court has declared the election of P. Ravindranath, son of former Tamil Nadu CM O Paneerselvan and the sole Member of Parliament from the AIADMK party null and void. The court however kept the order in abeyance for a month, to enable appeal against the order. P Ravindranath, was the lone candidate of the AIADMK-NDA coalition to succeed in the 2019 Constituency Election from...