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 stay Tamil Nadu's move to a fully digital system for driving licences and vehicle registration certificates from September 13, issuing notice instead on a Bangalore firm's challenge to the transport department's communication.
Madras High Court quashes a criminal case against men who gathered to raise slogans in support of Palestine, holding that merely raising such slogans — without force, mischief or restraint of anyone — does not make out an unlawful assembly.
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 orders closure of a TASMAC liquor shop found to be just 55.7 metres from a National Highway, holding distance for the statutory liquor-shop ban must be calculated as the shortest path, rejecting the shop's claim it was over 30 metres away.
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 sets aside a Family Court order that declined jurisdiction over a mutual-consent divorce petition, holding the petition ought to have been entertained where filed since the husband resided within those local limits.
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.
Hearing a contempt petition over delay in proceedings against a former minister and IAS officers accused of favouritism in municipal tenders, Madras High Court remarks that it is "very difficult" to get corruption cases registered against powerful men in the country.