Madras High Court News

The Madras High Court has set aside an order mandating a blanket statewide ban on temples acquiring or keeping elephants and observed that the conservation direction aimed at stopping any fresh depletion of the wild elephant population, whereas an elephant gen

The Madras High Court has dismissed the appeal of an MBBS graduate who claimed that her medical degree was withheld following the NIA s allegations that her tuition fees were paid with funds raised for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). In its June

The Madras High Court has declared a couple the lawful parents of a child to be born through surrogacy, holding that the child will be treated as their biological child and enjoy all rights available to a natural child while setting aside an order that rejecte

Quoting the Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna, the Madras High Court recently said that all living beings are equal in the eyes of God and that there is no room for discrimination in a place of worship while hearing a matter alleging that non-Brahmin devotees wer

The Supreme Court Friday stayed an order of the Madras High Court which quashed Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay s order providing government jobs to relatives of people who died in a stampede at Karur last year. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chand

Moving to curb the practice of devotees throwing clothes, slippers and other ritual items into the Tamirabarani river after performing last rites and ancestral rituals, the Madras High Court has held that "no one has the right to pollute a water body even in t

The Madras High Court dismissed a woman s plea for regularisation as a scavenger at a veterinary hospital, holding that long service under MGNREGA does not confer a right to permanent employment. However, the court urged policymakers to explore deploying MGNRE

The Madras High Court has held that a woman teacher cannot be denied posting in a boys school, which claims not to have the requisite infrastructure to cater to a female teacher, observing that neither the Tamil Nadu Private Schools Act nor the rules provided

Underlining the paramount duty of the forest department to ensure ecological balance and protect it from human activity, the Madras High Court recently refused to allow a plea seeking the use of cooking utensils, fuel, and other combustible materials in a rese

The Court dismissed the petition completely, ruling that public interest cases cannot be built on digital gossip and unverified media reports. Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G

Former Minister and sitting DMK MLA Anitha R Radhakrishnan was arrested by the Thoothukudi police Friday after the Madras High Court refused to grant him anticipatory bail in a case registered over his alleged derogatory remarks against Chief Minister C Joseph

The Madras High Court has refused bail to two men accused in the Jana Nayagan leak case, dealing another blow in the investigation into the piracy of actor-turned-politician, now Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister, Vijay's upcoming film. During the hearing, the prose

A beloved figure in Tamil and Malayalam cinema in the 1990s, when she appeared alongside superstars in major movies, Sukanya Ramesh is no longer very active in Tinseltown, barring a few occasional...

The Madras High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings against a BJP functionary and a Hindu Munnani office-bearer accused of delivering anti-Islamic hate speech, observing that criminal courts...

Religious: Calling a trustee's explanation a "movie-like defence" that he had been abducted by unidentified persons, taken to the sub-registrar's office at knifepoint and forced to execute a power...

Over a career spanning nearly five decades, Ilaiyaraaja has composed music for over 1,500 films and written more than 8,000 songs. By any reasonable measure, that catalogue is one of the most commercially exploited bodies of work in Indian cinema.