Madras High Court directs Tiruppur police to permit installation of a Vinayagar idol for Ganesh Chaturthi after an application went unanswered, remarking that "worship is a fundamental right" and the petitioners should not be prevented from installing the idol.
Madras High Court questions the CBI and Bureau of Immigration's practice of treating Look Out Circulars as confidential, remarking that India "does not follow a Kafkaesque trial" and that a person affected by adverse proceedings has a right to know why.
Madras High Court dismisses two writ petitions seeking inclusion of the OBC category in the House Listing Operation and Population Enumeration of the ongoing census, holding the Centre's decision to enumerate caste data only for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is a policy decision beyond the court's remit.
Relying on the Puttaswamy privacy judgment, Madras High Court directs the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council to record a transgender man as "male" — not "transgender man" — across all his professional records, holding the right to construct one's own identity is part of the fundamental right to privacy.