Chennai, Mar 19 (BPNS) A single bench of the Madras High Court on Sunday said that he will hear the petition against the AIADMK general secretary elections on March 22 and the verdict on whether elections are to conducted will be given on March 24. The elections to the AIADMK general secretary are scheduled for March 26 […]
Chennai, Mar 16 (BPNS) The Madras High Court directed the state prisons department to produce the details of the treatment provided to the accused in the Coimbatore Car blast case, Mohammed Asaruddhin. The father of Mohammed Asaruddhin, Mohamed Yousuf had moved Madras High Court stating that his son was brutally beaten up by the National […]
Chennai, Mar 13 (BPNS) The Madras High court held unconstitutional two Government orders issued in 2013 and 2014 empowering Deputy commissioners of police to exercise the powers of Executive magistrates under the Sections 107 to 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). A division bench of the Madras High Court comprising of Justices N. […]
Chennai, March1 (BPNS) The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a bail application by D. Kowse Azam Basha who allegedly had plotted and executed the murder of his brother, Dr. D. Masthan who was the then vice chairman of Tamil Nadu Minority Commission. Madras High Court judge, Justice T.V. Thamilselvi dismissed the bail application after […]
Chennai, Feb 28(BPNS) Madras High Court judge, Justice Velmurugan will be traveling to the Vachathi tribal hamlet on March 4th before pronouncing judgment in the three-decade-old rape and assault case of tribal women by several government officials. The court has reserved orders in the appeal of the convicts who were government officials with the revenue, police, […]
Chennai, Feb 25 (BPNS) The Chief Judicial Magistrate court (CJM), Villupuram, Tamil Nadu has granted three-day custody of the owner of the Villupuram Anbu Jothi Ashram Jubin Baby, his wife Mariam, and six others to the custody of CB-CID police. The CJM,M. Pushparani passed the order on Saturday and directed the CB-CID to produce the […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 22, (BPNS) In the decade-old illegal ivory possession case, actor Mohanlal has suffered a setback. The actor’s plea for quashing an order related to the case has been dismissed by the Kerala High Court on Wednesday. The order in question is of Perumbavoor Judicial First Class Magistrate Court (JFCMC) which dismissed the state […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 21, (BPNS) In a significant step, the Kerala High Court has started to publish its decisions in Malayalam. With this, it became the first high court in the country to translate judgments in English to a regional language. Recently the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said that the apex court’s judgments […]
Chennai, Feb 20 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Monday directed the police to file an Action Taken Report (ATR) in a week’s time regarding the Villupuram Anbu Jothi Ashram case. It may be noted that there have been several allegations of sexual assault, torture and human trafficking of mentally unstable patients from the ashram […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20, (BPNS) A division bench of the Kerala High Court reiterated that the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has jurisdiction to direct payment of compensation for violation of human rights. The court while dismissing a writ petition filed by a local body said that it didn’t find any illegality or irregularity or lack […]
