Category: Madras High Court

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: Coming to the rescue of 27 employees of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, who had put in 9 to 10 years of service as Skilled NMR on daily wages initially and thereafter on consolidated appointment, but were issued with disengagement memo, the Madras high court has directed the University to consider their representations, to

Source: news18.com Chennai: In a candid declaration, a Madras High Court judge has sent to the Bar a self-appraisal of his two-year tenure, reflecting on disposal of cases, his judgments, behaviour, and vowing to evolve a mechanism to overcome his shortcomings. Justice GR Swaminathan, who assumed office on June 28, 2017, said in his report

Source: indianexpress.com A Madras High Court judge has surprised many by releasing a self-appraisal card, along with a confession that he was releasing 75 cases from his board, in which he reserved orders but failed to deliver final orders. ustice G R Swaminathan, who became the Madras High Court judge in June 2017, said in

Source: freepressjournal.in Chennai: The Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government not to prevent protests highlighting the water woes in the state and said it should work with organisations interested in conservation of water bodies to address the situation. Justice N Anand Venkatesh made the observation on Friday while directing the Chennai Commissioner

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court pointed out the legal principle that excess payment of salary cannot be recovered from Group-III and Group-IV employees as well as retired employees. The court directed the Chief Secretary to government to issue consolidated/comprehensive instructions to all the subordinate officials to ensure that in the event of wrong

Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has dismissed a batch of petitions, which challenged the erection of high tension electricity towers through agricultural lands for the Rs 24,000 crore project to transmit power from Chhattisgarh to Tamil Nadu. Dismissing the petitions from Vai.Palanisamy and 10 others, Justice G.Jayachandran said as far as the factual

Source: thelogicalindian.com The Madras High Court has said that a woman can terminate her 20-week old unwanted pregnancy on her own without taking permission from the court or the medical board. The court made this observation on 19 June, while disposing of a petition by a rape victim who approached the court for permission to

Source: scroll.in The Madras High Court on Friday said a rape victim need not approach a medical board or the judiciary to terminate a pregnancy less than 20 weeks long, PTI reported. Justice N Anand Venkatesh said that Section 3 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, said pregnancies that were less than 12

Source: thehindu.com Hearing a plea for Indian citizenship by 65 Tamils from Sri Lanka — the descendants of indentured labourers — the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has permitted them to submit a fresh application seeking citizenship to the District Collector concerned. Justice G.R. Swaminathan directed the District Collector concerned to forward the

Source: deccanchronicle.com Observing that the confidence in the minds of the litigants regarding judicial functions would be shaken, if the vacate stay petitions are not listed within the prescribed time schedule, the Madras high court has directed the Registry of Madurai Bench of Madras high court to adhere to 2016 order as well as the