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Madras High Court noted that there are three pending cases against the petitioner in the State of Tamil Nadu, out of which, two cases were registered in the year 2023
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“When the statute mandates what an authority shall consider, then it is obligatory for the statutory authority to consider those materials which the statute mandates”
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A person accused of an offence under the Penal Code (‘IPC’) who has not been forwarded under Section 167(1) of the CrPC and has voluntarily appeared and filed a surrender petition cannot be dealt with under Section 167(2) of the CrPC.
“High standard of proof is essential to convict an accused in a criminal trial. However, no such strict proof is required for punishing a public servant under the Discipline and Appeal Rules”.
The Special Court for POCSO cases convicted the Tamil languageNadu teacher under Section 12 of the POCSO Act and sentenced him to three years of rigorous imprisonment and the High Court affirmed the conviction.
“The real challenge with a patent application in respect of a synthesized non-living substance is establishing novelty, technical advance and not patent eligibility”
Madras High Court pointed out that at this juncture that the minor child had been under the grandparents’ care since birth, which was disturbed due to the strained relationship between the parties.
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“Any reasonable, fair and well-intentioned leader must be aimed at identifying the commonalities of different sections of the people to unite, rather than divide them. Though criticism is essential for growth, it must be constructive to ensure that progress, rather than destruction.”
“Two-year LLM is not a higher qualification than the one-year LLM as both get the same degrees. Prescribing higher standards would be in ‘addition to’ and not in ‘derogation to’. It can be supplementing and not supplanting”
“Water bodies belong to the society. Their ownership may technically rest in local bodies/departments/government. But they are a gift of nature and have to be available not only for human beings but also animals and birds.”
Justice S. Vaidyanathan was appointed by the President as new Chief Justice of the High Court of Meghalaya on 02-02-2024 and took charge of his new office on 11-02-2024.
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Madras High Court said that the Controller is correct in stating that both the cited prior art and the claimed invention provide for the transmission of sensor data to a subscribing application, but the difference lies in how such data is transmitted.
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Senthil Balaji was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 14-06-2023 for an alleged offence under Section 3 of PMLA.
In 2023, Madras High Court had held that the mosque was illegally constructed without any building sanction plan.
The legitimacy of the administration of criminal justice will be eroded, and public confidence shaken if MLA’s and Ministers facing corruption cases can short-circuit criminal trials by adopting the modus operandi that has been carried out in this case.