The Madras High Court has declared that a Muslim woman is free to exercise her unalienable right to dissolve a marriage through a “Khula” (divorce action started by the wife) by going to a family court rather than a private organisation like a Shariat Council. Khula marriage Continue Reading
The Madras High Court said on Thursday that parents also play an equally important part in determining a child’s future and that teachers alone should not be held responsible if a student takes the drastic decision to terminate his or her life. The parents have a responsibility to give their kids a good atmosphere both […]Continue Reading
The Madras High Court has ordered that when police raid a brothel home, sex workers shall not be arrested or punished. Justice N Satish Kumar rejected a FIR filed against a brothel house customer, citing a recent Supreme Court decision that stated that when a brothel is raided, sex workers should not be arrested, penalised, […]Continue Reading
The Madras High Court has taken stern action against a lawyer who allegedly impregnated a young woman in a virtual hearing case. The Madras High Court on Tuesday suspended the lawyer for appearing in court in an obscene manner. R D Santhana Krishnan’s lawyer misbehaved during a virtual hearing of a case before a single […]Continue Reading
President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation, submitted by the Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani. The position vacated by the resigned judge has been awarded to Justice Vineet Kothari temporarily by the President of the country. Earlier, the Supreme Court Collegium transferred the Madras HC Chief Justice to Meghalaya as […]Continue Reading
Former High Court judge C S Karnan, who was jailed by the Supreme Court for contempt case, is set to get freedom today. He is the first sitting High Court judge to have been handed such a serious jail term by the top court of the country. When he had been awarded a harsher jail […]Continue Reading
Puncturing the Tamil Nadu government’s stand in the Madras High court that no official report on the Gutkha Scam was available, the former TN chief secretary, P Rama Mohana Rao, has revealed to an national daily that he, while serving as the chief secretary, received an official report regarding the infamous scam. He has further […]Continue Reading
The Madras High Court on last day directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the mysterious ‘Rs 570 crore money’ case. The money was seized by the election commission officials from Tamil Nadu on May 13 during the last assembly election. Since then, several top political personalities, activists, and officials raised speculations about the money transaction Continue Reading
Gifting relief to the inter-caste couples and lovers, the Madras High Court on last day insisted the Tamil Nadu government to formulate feasible measures to protect the inter-cast couples. Recently, a lower cast man was hatched to death by some goons in broad daylight for marring an upper cast woman. The brutal incident triggered wide […]Continue Reading