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  Refusal to marry does not grant men right to stab women: Madras High Court

  India | April 30, 2019 9:11 IST

  The courts must stop being merciful or tend to have misplaced sympathies in cases of this nature, the high court observed.

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  Man gets three-month imprisonment for foul language against magistrate, aspersions on sessions judge

  India | April 28, 2019 22:07 IST

  Justices PN Prakash and B Pugalendi, on their own, directed that the man be taken into custody and lodged in the nearest central prison for serving the sentence, and disposed of his petition.

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  Madras High Court lifts ban on TikTok app, conditions apply

  India | April 24, 2019 19:10 IST

  Deciding the case filed by advocate Muthukumar, the bench vacated its interim order banning the app, subject to conditions that pornographic videos will not be uploaded on it, failing with the contempt of court proceedings would begin.

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  TikTok ban lifted by Madras High Court

  Technology | April 24, 2019 18:59 IST

  Madras High Court's Madurai Bench lifts the ban on video mobile application TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance.

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  Bride, under Hindu Marriage Act, does not refer to just women: HC

  India | April 23, 2019 17:57 IST

  In a landmark judgment for India's LGBTQ community, the Madras High Court has held that marriage between a man and a transwoman was valid under the Hindu Marriage Act as the term 'bride' would not necessarily refer only to a woman.

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  RBI employees aren't government servants: Madras high court

  India | April 15, 2019 11:09 IST

  The Division Bench, comprising of Justice K.K. Sasidharan and Justice P.D. Audikesavulu, said: "The fact that the central government has persuasive control over RBI would not make its employees central government employees. 

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  Tamil Nadu: High Court strikes down land acquisition for 8-lane expressway

  India | April 08, 2019 11:58 IST

  The state government issued notification last May and began acquiring lands for the project evoking strong protests by the farmers.  

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  Supreme Court upholds life term to owner of Sarvana chain of restaurants in murder case

  India | March 29, 2019 17:41 IST

  A bench comprising Justices N V Ramana and M M Shantanagoudar dismissed as many as eight appeals filed by the convicts challenging the 2009 verdict of the Madras High Court in the case

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  Madras HC directs officials in Tamil Nadu to remove unauthorised flag poles across state by April 1

  March 26, 2019 10:26 IST

  The petitioner claimed there had been clashes due to dispute between rival political parties over flag poles.

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  100 per cent VVPAT coverage in LS polls: EC tells Madras High Court

  February 05, 2019 20:52 IST

  After the EC's submission assuring 100 per cent use of VVPAT machines, the bench dismissed the petition.

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  Negative marking in exams acts as bolt in brain development of students: High Court

  Education | February 01, 2019 23:04 IST

  The Madras High Court on Friday said the system of negative marking in competitive exams such as JEE, conducted by the CBSE, requires reconsideration as it acts only as "a bolt in the brain development" of students and prevents them from making intelligent guesses.

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  Madras High Court upholds family court order against divorce for denial of conjugal bliss after 16 yrs of marriage

  India | January 24, 2019 21:18 IST

  The Madras High Court on Thursday ruled that the refusal of a spouse to cooperate in a conjugal relationship after 16 years of marriage cannot be grounds for granting divorce or dissolution of the marriage.

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  Jayalalithaa cannot be termed convict in disproportionate assets case: Madras HC

  India | January 23, 2019 20:54 IST

  The petitioner also said that steps should be taken to recover money if it was spent by the government from her property citing that she was convicted in the disproportionate wealth case.

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  Madras HC grants Nalini Chidambaram interim protection from arrest in Saradha chit fund case

  India | January 13, 2019 6:39 IST

  The judge granted four weeks interim bail to Nalini and directed her to surrender before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Egmore here and furnish sureties and thereafter approach the jurisdictional court in West Bengal and obtain regular anticipatory bail.

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  Madras HC orders status quo, restrains Sterlite from reopening copper plant

  India | December 21, 2018 23:56 IST

  Justices K K Sasindhran and P D Audikesavalu of the Madurai Bench also restrained the Vedanta group from taking any steps to reopen the unit.

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  Jaya not a convict, no bar on memorial for her: Tamil Nadu government to High Court

  India | December 19, 2018 22:00 IST

  The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday contended in the Madras High Court that late chief minister Jayalalithaa was not a convict in the wealth case as the Supreme Court had abated charges against her and hence, there was no bar on constructing a memorial for her.

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  Madras High Court bans online sale of medicines till government notifies rules

  India | December 17, 2018 20:39 IST

  The Madras High Court on Monday banned online sale of medicines till the Union Health Ministry and the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation notified the proposed Drugs and Cosmetics Amendment Rules, 2018 in the gazette at the earliest by January 31.

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  Madras HC dismisses woman's claim that she is Jayalaliathaa's daughter

  India | October 12, 2018 23:04 IST

  Justice S Vaidyanathan, putting away the petition, said there was no question of the court allowing her to perform the last rites of Jayalalitha as per Vaishnavite rituals, as requested.

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  Extension of remand based on prosecution report with specific reasons : Madras HC

  India | September 26, 2018 16:36 IST

  The court clarified that specific reasons that really necessitate the extended remand of the accused did not form part of the report, which is the basic requirement for it.

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  Madras HC directs medical panel to examine 9-yr-old boy for passive euthanasia

  India | September 10, 2018 20:22 IST

  The team consisting of three experts was directed by the court to report whether the persistent vegetative state criteria was fulfilled and if there was any scope for the boy's treatment.