Madras High Court
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EC officials should probably be booked for murder: Madras HC on poll rallies amid Covid-19 surge
News | Apr 26, 2021, 01:47 PM ISTThe Madras High Court noted that the Election Commission is "singularly responsible" for the second wave of Covid-19 and said that the poll body's officials could be booked for murder for allowing political rallies amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic.
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No restoration of full train services, says Madras High Court
India | Mar 16, 2021, 08:10 PM ISTDue to the spurt in the number of Covid cases, no direction can be issued to the Southern Railway to restore its services in full strength, the Madras High Court said on Tuesday.
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CBI conducting internal inquiry into 'missing' gold case
India | Dec 12, 2020, 10:31 PM ISTThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday set up an 'internal inquiry' under an Superintendent of Police (SP)-ranked officer after 103 kg gold out of a total 400 kg, seized and sealed by it eight years ago, was found missing, but the probe is yet to be completed as COVID-19-induced restrictions delayed it, officials said.
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Madras HC order puts AICF' chief Raja under check
Other Sports | Oct 03, 2020, 04:35 PM ISTIn a major setback for P.R.Venketrama Raja, President AICF, the Madras High Court has clarified the electoral college that existed in February this year is no more valid.
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Madras HC notice to A.R. Rahman in IT case
Entertainment | Sep 12, 2020, 01:15 PM ISTThe Madras High Court has ordered a notice to composer A R Rahman on an appeal made by the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax against the decision of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) that went in favour of the music composer.
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Madras HC refuses to allow reopening of Vedanta's Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper Plant
India | Aug 18, 2020, 11:47 AM ISTMadras High Court on Tuesday refused to allow the reopening of Sterlite copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi.
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Udumalpet honour killing: Madras High Court sets aside death sentence of five accused
India | Jun 22, 2020, 01:52 PM ISTThe Madras High Court on Monday acquitted the prime accused in 2016 Udumalpet honour killing case. The court also modified the death sentence awarded to five others to life imprisonment in the murder case of a 22-year old man in full public view in Tirupur district in Tamil Nadu.
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Madras HC grants bail to 31 foreign Tablighi Jamaatis
India | Jun 16, 2020, 12:35 PM ISTGranting bail to 31 foreigners -- 20 from Indonesia and 11 from Bangladesh -- Justice G.R. Swaminathan also asked the state and the central governments to facilitate their return to their homeland.
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Madras High Court issues notices to Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
Business | May 29, 2020, 08:41 PM ISTNotices have been issued to crisis-hit Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund and Sebi by the Madras High Court after a petition was filed by an investors group to safeguard nearly Rs 28,000 crore of investors' money stuck in six schemes shut down by the fund house, according to a statement.
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Jayalalithaa's assets valued up to Rs 1,000 cr, HC rules J Deepa and J Deepak 'class-II legal heir'
India | May 28, 2020, 08:48 AM ISTThe Madras High Court declared Jayalalithaa's newphew J. Deepak and niece J. Deepa as her second line legal heirs on Wednesday and suggested to the government to convert part of the late CM's residence as a memorial.
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Liquor shops reopen in Tamil Nadu with these guidelines. Chennai has to wait
Fyi | May 07, 2020, 01:46 PM ISTLiquor shops in Tamil Nadu are allowed to open from today after the Madras High Court on Wednesday permitted opening of Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) shops.
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Madras HC rejects Rajiv Gandhi's assassin's plea for release
India | Mar 11, 2020, 03:54 PM ISTThe Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
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Periyar row: Madras High Court dismisses plea against Rajinikanth
India | Jan 24, 2020, 01:24 PM ISTThe Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed against actor Rajinikanth over his remarks on rationalist leader E V Ramasamy "Periyar" as the petitioners withdrew the plea. Justice P Rajamanickam was hearing the petition by Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam, a fringe outfit.
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Puducherry power tussle: Madras HC reserves verdict on appeals of Centre, Kiran Bedi
India | Dec 14, 2019, 10:21 AM ISTAllowing the plea, a single judge of the court observed that the elected government functioning through a council of ministers could not be defeated by the acts of an administrator who is also functioning under the provisions of the Constitution.
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Unwed couples staying in hotel room is no crime, says Madras HC
India | Dec 07, 2019, 10:55 PM ISTHe made the observations while directing authorities to de-seal a hire service apartment in Coimbatore, which was closed after a police and revenue team conducted a search following complaints of alleged immoral activities and found an unmarried couple and some liquor bottles in a room there in June this year.
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Plea in HC for CBI probe into 14 suicides in IIT Madras
Crime | Nov 29, 2019, 11:14 PM ISTOf the students who ended their lives, five were from Andhra Pradesh, three from Kerala, two each from Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh and one each from Puducherry and Jharkhand and recently Fathima Latheef, a 19-year old student had committed suicide.
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Chennai: Madras HC reserves order on plea over encroached temple lands
India | Nov 19, 2019, 12:49 PM ISTWhen the plea came up for hearing, the bench wondered how the GO would be implemented without having the details or statistics of encroachments of land owned by 38,000 temples under the control of the Hindu religious and charitable endowments department.
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HC issues notice to Centre on PIL over passport rules on sex reassignment surgery
India | Nov 13, 2019, 04:49 PM ISTThe petitioner, who has been actively involved in furthering the interests of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer) community, referred to a Supreme Court judgment relating to the rights of transgenders in the plea.
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Hydrocarbon exploration: HC issues notice to Petroleum Ministry
India | Nov 09, 2019, 04:32 PM ISTThe Madras High Court has ordered notice to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry and the Director-General of Hydrocarbons, Noida, returnable by January 7 on a plea seeking to forebear authorities from implementing Hydrocarbon exploration and methane production project in the Cauvery Delta Area and Cauvery river basin in Tamil Nadu.
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Madras HC dismisses plea challenging J-K Reorganisation Act
India | Oct 31, 2019, 07:08 PM ISTAccording to the petitioner, Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi (DMSK), a Tamil Nadu-based group, the Union legislature cannot legislate on those matters in the Union List and the Concurrent List which are not in accordance with subjects in the Instrument of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir.