Madras High Court Archives

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Central Information Commission directs All India Chess Federation to furnish its expenditure in case against Competition Commission of India

Central Information Commission: In the second appeal filed by the appellant under Section 19 of the Right to Information Act,

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Madras High Court directs DRO to receive gold armour from the Bank for Thevar Jayanthi celebrations; restricts AIADMK from interfering in the process

Madras High Court: In a petition filed by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (‘AIADMK party’) praying to pass an

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Madras High Court temporarily restrains ‘Mobile Pe’ from offering UPI and BHIM services following ‘PhonePe’s’ Trade mark infringement suit

Madras High Court: In a Trade mark dispute between digital payments applications “Phone Pe” and “Mobile Pe”, M. Sundar, J has temporarily

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Madras High Court |Duty of the law enforcing agencies to be more vigilant in curbing the social media menace and maintain the social decorum and harmony in society

The citizens, through the various social media platforms cause havoc to the nation and degrade the credibility and respect which the other countries around the globe have on Mother India

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Absence of application to condone delay barred by limitation; Madras High Court quashes FIR against self-styled Godman Shiva Sankar Baba

Madras High Court: In a criminal original petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for

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Madras High Court| Citizenship Amendment Act applicable to Sri Lankan Hindu Tamils

Madras High Court: A writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of

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Madras High Court directs constitution of Teller Committee and to conduct Advocates Association elections within 90 days following existing byelaws of MHAA

Madras High Court: In a review application filed to review the order passed by this Court, the division bench of R. Mahadevan

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Madras High Court| Directors cannot escape criminal liability on the ground that they are not directly involved in the production of sub-standard Pharma products

Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to quash the criminal complaint filed

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Madras High Court| Transgender persons seeking admissions to be placed in special category; Minimal number of Transgender persons in State not a valid excuse

Madras High Court directed the State to treat a transgender person seeking admission in Nursing College as a special candidate in light of Supreme Court’s 2014 NALSA verdict

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Madras High Court initiates suo motu writ petition to examine the mitigating circumstances resulting in commission of suicide inside the Court premises

Madras High Court: In the suicide case inside the premises of the Madras High Court, S.M. /Subramaniam, J. has observed that the

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Madras High Court | Courts will not interfere or set aside an arbitral award, merely because an alternative view is possible; Adopt a hands-off approach

Madras High Court: In an intra-Court appeal filed against the order of the single judge, whereby, the judge allowed the

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Madras High Court | Materials must be placed before the Court in order to extend the period of remand

Madras High Court: In a criminal appeal filed challenging the extension of the remand period from 90 days to 180

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Madras High Court directs State to pay compensation to the detenue who has been kept in illegal detention for 128 days

Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a writ

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“To turn a child against a parent is to turn a child against himself; Parental alienation is inhuman, and it is a menace to a child”, says Madras High Court

Madras High Court: In an application seeking the appointment of the applicant as a fit and proper person to be

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Madras High Court directs police authorities to prohibit obscene and vulgar dance performances during Dusshera festival

Madras High Court: In a writ petition filed for directing the respondents to obtain a declaration from the organisers of

Appointments & Transfers News

President appoints Justice T. Raja as the Acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court

The President has appointed Shri Justice T.Raja, senior-most Judge of the Madras High Court, to perform the duties of the office of

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Madras High Court finds YouTuber Savukku guilty of criminal contempt; sentenced him to six months imprisonment for derogatory remarks on the higher Judiciary

Madras High Court: In a suo motu contempt petition against the YouTuber Savukku Shankar, the division bench of G.R. Swaminathan and B.

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We Dissent!: Here’s why 2 out of 5 judges ruled against Madras High Court’s original jurisdiction in child custody cases

Madras High Court: The five-judge bench of P.N. Prakash, N. Anand Venkatesh, R. Mahadevan, M. Sundar, A.A. Nakkiran, JJ. in a 3:2

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Madras High Court set aside conviction of the accused for possessing Heroin believing it to be tamarind and wheat flour; observes in some peculiar circumstances the knowledge of contraband cannot be attributed to the accused

Madras High Court: In an appeal filed under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) r/w Section 36-B of Narcotic

Appointments & Transfers News

President appoints Justice M. Duraiswamy as the acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court w.e.f 13-09-2022

The President appoints Shri Justice M. Duraiswamy, senior-most Judge of the Madras High Court, to perform the duties of the office of