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  Madras HC grants bail to 31 foreign Tablighi Jamaatis

  India | June 16, 2020 12:35 IST

  Granting 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 20:41 IST

  Notices 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 8:48 IST

  The 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 13:46 IST

  Liquor 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 | March 11, 2020 15:54 IST

  The 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 | January 24, 2020 13:24 IST

  The 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 | December 14, 2019 10:21 IST

  Allowing 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 | December 07, 2019 22:55 IST

  He 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 | November 29, 2019 23:14 IST

  Of 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 | November 19, 2019 12:49 IST

  When 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 | November 13, 2019 16:49 IST

  The 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 | November 09, 2019 16:32 IST

  The 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 | October 31, 2019 19:08 IST

    According 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.

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  Swathi murder case: HC dismisses plea by father of accused

  Crime | October 26, 2019 11:56 IST

  Swathi, 24, was hacked to death with a sickle on June 24, 2016 when she was waiting to board a train in Nungambakkam railway station here. R Paramasivan had also sought a direction from the court to constitute a committee and conduct an inquiry with the makers of the movie and submit a report to the court.

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  Absence of injury no ground to say there was no sex abuse: HC

  Crime | October 19, 2019 19:15 IST

  The Madras High Court has said the mere absence of injury on the body of a sexually abused minor cannot be a ground to say there has been no offence committed at all.

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  HC 'shocked' over sessions judge awarding lesser punishment in murder

  India | October 18, 2019 18:00 IST

  The Madras High Court has taken a serious view of a sessions judge awarding lesser punishment to two murder convicts instead of death or life imprisonment as provided in the statute and sought an explanation within three days.  

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  NEET impersonation case Madras HC impleads CBI as respondent

  India | October 16, 2019 21:53 IST

  The bench noted that since the students impersonated and got admission by writing the examination outside the state, the fraud should be an all-India phenomenon and many students in various states should have got admission by impersonation.  

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  Chennai techie death: Subhasri's father moves Madras HC, seeks Rs 1 cr

  India | October 09, 2019 19:17 IST

  A month after an illegal banner led to the death of 23-year-old techie Subhasri, her father has approached the Madras High Court against the Tamil Nadu government. He has sought a compensation of Rs 1 crore.

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  Vineet Kothari appointed Chief Justice of Madras High Court

  India | September 21, 2019 10:56 IST

  V K Tahilramani had resigned after the Supreme Court collegium declined her request for reconsideration of transfer to Meghalaya.

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  Lost faith in the govt: Madras High court after death of Chennai techie

  India | September 13, 2019 13:48 IST

  Saddened by the news of Subhashree, who died after a banner of AIADMK fell on her, the Madras High Court said that they are tired of passing multiple order against the illegal flex boards on Friday.