Madras High Court holds that converting a disciplinary charge from a serious to a non-serious provision does not relate back to the original charge-memo date, leaving the government servant's promotion barred by an intervening censure punishment.
Madras High Court declines to entertain a social activist's plea seeking strict enforcement of Central Pollution Control Board idol-immersion guidelines ahead of Vinayaga Chaturthi, asking why he "slept on it for one year" before approaching the court at the last moment.
Madras High Court dismisses a PIL challenging the award of a tender to Joyalukkas for the "Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram" scheme distributing 1-gram gold rings to newborns, finding no arbitrariness or mala fides in the award and noting the petitioner never participated in the tender.
Madras High Court upholds a divorce granted on grounds of cruelty, holding that a wife's unjustified pressure on her husband — the only son of his parents — to set up a separate residence, combined with frequent, unexplained visits to her maternal home, amounted to cruelty.
Madras High Court's Madurai Bench declines to direct that Tamil hymns be recited on an equal footing with Sanskrit during the Meenakshi Temple's Kumbabishegam consecration, holding a writ court cannot legislate such a ritual arrangement absent an enabling law.
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.