Madras High Court
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Madras HC to Centre: End trauma of 65 Sri Lankan Tamils
India | Jun 23, 2019, 01:10 PM ISTThe Tamils crossed the narrow strip of sea dividing Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu way back with a view to make India their permanent home but the Centre has refused to give them citizenship all these years.
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Teacher cannot be blamed for student's suicide: Madras High Court
India | Jun 21, 2019, 10:34 PM IST"When teachers, in the interest of the institution and the students, take stern action against them to correct any mistake or to cultivate good habits and get rid of bad ones, such acts cannot be said to have abetted the suicide," the judge said in his order.
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Rape victims can end pregnancy sans medical board nod: Madras High Court
India | Jun 21, 2019, 10:16 PM ISTDisposing of a criminal original petition from a victim, Justice N Anand Venkatesh said in all cases of unneeded pregnancy suffered by a victim, she need not be referred to the medical board if the length of pregnancy does not exceed 20 weeks.
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Kamal Haasan secures anticipatory bail in Godse extremist remark
India | May 20, 2019, 01:15 PM ISTKamal Haasan's comment created a huge row nationwide and police complaints were filed in Aravakuruchi against Haasan for trying to create enmity between communities.
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Kamal Haasan seeks anticipatory bail in HC over 'Hindu extremist' remark
May 15, 2019, 09:43 PM ISTHaasan moved the plea after the court earlier refused to quash an FIR against him, saying such pleas cannot be taken up as emergent petitions during the vacation and that if an anticipatory bail application was filed it could be taken up for hearing.
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Refusal to marry does not grant men right to stab women: Madras High Court
India | Apr 30, 2019, 09:11 AM ISTThe 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 | Apr 28, 2019, 10:07 PM ISTJustices 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 | Apr 24, 2019, 07:10 PM ISTDeciding 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 | Apr 24, 2019, 06:59 PM ISTMadras 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 | Apr 23, 2019, 05:57 PM ISTIn 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 | Apr 15, 2019, 11:09 AM ISTThe 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 | Apr 08, 2019, 11:58 AM ISTThe 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 | Mar 29, 2019, 05:41 PM ISTA 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
Mar 26, 2019, 10:26 AM ISTThe 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
Feb 05, 2019, 08:52 PM ISTAfter 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 | Feb 01, 2019, 11:04 PM ISTThe 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 | Jan 24, 2019, 09:18 PM ISTThe 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 | Jan 23, 2019, 08:54 PM ISTThe 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 | Jan 13, 2019, 06:39 AM ISTThe 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 | Dec 21, 2018, 11:56 PM ISTJustices K K Sasindhran and P D Audikesavalu of the Madurai Bench also restrained the Vedanta group from taking any steps to reopen the unit.