A Division Bench of the Madras High Court at Madurai declined to direct that Other Backward Classes be counted in the Census, holding that whether to include the OBC category or any other caste is a policy decision, and also a matter for individuals, who may choose not to state their caste (para 3). It disposed of two writ petitions without setting aside the 2020 notification limiting caste enumeration to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (para 4).
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court upheld a divorce granted to a husband on the ground of cruelty, holding that a wife's frequent stays at her maternal home without valid reason, and her pressure on her husband, an only son, to set up a separate residence away from his parents, amounted to cruelty (paras 9-10). It dismissed her appeal against the Cuddalore Family Court's decree of 08.07.2026 (para 11).
The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council to correct a nurse's records to show him only as male, after he obtained a District Magistrate's certificate of change of gender under Section 7 of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (paras 7-8). It held that the right to construct one's own identity is part of the right to privacy, and ordered transfer of his registration to Karnataka within eight weeks (para 8).