Source – thehindu.com Eight serving judicial officers in the cadre of District Judge have moved the Supreme Court claiming that since 2017 the Madras High Court collegium continued to ignore their names, as well as that of six others belonging to their batch, and instead recommended their “juniors” for elevation as judges of the High
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a write petition filed by VCK president Thol. Thirumavalavan to declare as unconstitutional an ordinance promulgated by the State government on November 20 for changing the mode of election to the posts of mayors and municipal chairpersons from direct to indirect. Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a young widow who was denied home loan insurance by a private firm despite having lost her 39-year-old husband due to a cardiac arrest when he was behind the wheels of his car on his way to office in Abu Dhabi in
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Monday accepted a request made on behalf of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram and permitted him to appear before it on February 7 for cross examination in a case challenging his victory from the Sivaganga Parliamentary constituency in 2009 by a margin of 3,354 votes. Justice Pushpa
Source – hindustantimes.com The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against sitting Allahabad high court judge Justice Shri Narayan Shukla alleging that he accepted bribe in lieu of giving a favourable order for a Lucknow-based medical college. Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences was disbarred from taking admissions by the government in May
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has stayed the execution of a warrant issued by a Mahila Court in Coimbatore on Monday for hanging to death R. Manoharan, convicted for abduction, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl apart from the murder of her seven-year-old brother, after subjecting him to sodomy, in Coimbatore on
Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has summoned Home Secretary Niranjan Mardi to explain the delay in releasing five life convicts despite specific orders passed by a Division Bench of the court between December 7, 2018 and January 25 to release them forthwith by according the benefit of premature release granted to many other
Source – thehindu.com The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the recently released 13 life convicts in the Melavalavu massacre case to stay in Vellore district and not enter the region in Madurai district, till the disposal of the writ petition. The life convicts were recently released by the government on account of
Source – newindianexpress.com VIRUDHUNAGAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered Virudhunagar District Magistrate to submit a detailed report on a complaint that alleges 35 Dalit students, who were made to clean school toilets and were beaten up, were not given compensation under the provisions of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Source – thehindu.com In a major relief to commuters heading towards Villupuram, the long-pending work on a rail overbridge at Arumparthapuram, which had been suspended since 2017, resumed on Sunday. The Madras High Court vacated an interim stay recently, paving the way for the resumption of the project. The foundation stone for the ₹28.98-crore bridge
