A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai said it has perused the judgments submitted and was of the view that the issue does not need consideration by a larger bench.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday ruled out his resignation in the wake of Madras high court decision in the election petition against him saying the verdict was not a setback for him but for his rival.
The government and Congress party on Thursday came out in defence of Home Minister P Chidambaram, rejecting the Opposition's demands for his resignation in the wake of the Madras high court order that declined to dismiss a petition challenging his election to the Lok Sabha in 2009
The Madras High Court on Thursday rejected an application by Home Minister P Chidambaram seeking dismissal of the election petition filed by his immediate
Though Nalini's mother and brother were staying in the area for over a decade, there was no law and order problem, he said, adding that Nalini felt that it was wrong on the part of the government to "totally rely" on the inspector's report to reject her request.
Actor-director Kamal Haasan today announced release of his controversial film Vishwaroopam in Tamil Nadu on February 7 as he withdrew his petition against the ban on the movie in Madras High Court.
Maran was called on Monday but he skipped the scheduled meeting.
The Madras high court on Monday granted bail to V Divakaran, a relative of Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, in an abduction and criminal intimidation case.
A PIL petition was filed on Tuesday in the Madras high court seeking to forbid the Tamil Nadu government from shifting the state secretariat and assembly from the complex built by the previous Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam government to Fort St George. The petition also sought an interim injunction restraining the authorities from shifting the state secretariat and the legislative assembly from the present location.
The top court said despite the increasing trend of filing divorce proceedings in courts, the institution of marriage is still considered to be a pious, spiritual and invaluable emotional life-net between couples in the Indian society.
According to the apex court, the disclaimer should say that 'there is no authenticated data to back up the suggestion on figure of conversion and the film represents the fictionalised version'.
The Madras High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the trial court proceedings against AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in the 1993-94 wealth tax case, pending before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM).
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to explore the possibility of conducting an archaeological survey as directed by the Madras high court to ascertain whether Ram Sethu could be declared an ancient monument.
The Madras high court on Thursday had ordered his release on bail in the Sankararaman murder case.
A petition challenging the election of Home Minister P Chidambaram to the Lok Sabha from Sivaganga constituency in Tamil Nadu was filed in the Madras High Court today by his AIADMK rival Raja Kannappan.
The Centre would support the Indian judiciary to be independent, Rijiju said.
A full one year after Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on the night of September 22, 2016, followed by long hospitalisation and death on December 5, Tamil Nadu continues to be rocked by instability and non-governance of every which kind, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Post digitisation, broadcasters will be able to cut down their revenue loss, and it's the customer paying for set top box.
The Madras high court on Thursday issued a fresh direction to the Centre to conduct caste-wise census in the country. Allowing a PIL by lawyer R Krishnamoorthy, a division bench on Wednesday directed the Census commissioner to take all steps to hold caste-wise enumeration. The bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice T S Sivagnanam said the relief sought by the petitioner had already been answered in the affirmative by the court in an earlier verdict
The Madras high court's judgment on June 17, which decided an alimony dispute between an unmarried couple who have two children, took over the cerebral cortex of Twitter and other social media spaces a few days ago.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Madras high court orders allowing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to hold marches in state and dismissed the appeals of the Tamil Nadu government.
The Madras high court bench in Madurai on Wednesday granted two weeks parole to Ravi alias Ravichandran, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Three AIADMK functionaries were awarded the death sentence by a lower court in the Dharmapuri bus burning case in which three college girls were burnt to death in 2000.
The Madras High Court posted for Saturday a batch of petitions filed by mobile cell phone providers, seeking to vacate the February 7 Court order.
The Minister, facing charges of using a proxy to write his SSLC examination at a Centre in Tamil Nadu in September, has been evading arrest since the Madras high court on Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail petition.
'If a property of a male Hindu dying intestate (without a will) is a self-acquired property or obtained in the partition of a coparcenary or a family property, the same would devolve by inheritance and not by survivorship, and a daughter of such a male Hindu would be entitled to inherit such property in preference to other collaterals (such as sons/daughters of brothers of deceased father),' a bench of justices S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari said.
The Madras high court has ruled that those living in residential areas are not entitled to keep dogs or other pets as a matter of right. The direction came as the court dismissed a review petition by D Vikram, a resident of Coimbatore, challenging the order by the authorities asking him to 'remove forthwith his dogs', after neighbours complained that his canines annoyed and caused inconvenience to them.
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has posted to next week bail applications of former minister KN Nehru, his brother and few others in a case registered against them on land grab charges.
This is a case relating to non-filing of Income Tax returns during 1991-94.
Nalini, lodged in the Special Prison for Women in Vellore for the last 27 years, had sought six months leave to make arrangements for the marriage of her daughter.
The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis AG, challenging the constitutional validity of the section 3 (d) of the Patents (Amendment) Act 2005.
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was on Wednesday sworn-in as the governor of Tamil Nadu. Madras high court Chief Justice M Y Eqbal administered the oath of office to Rosaiah at a function in Raj Bhavan in Chennai.
Granting the interim stay, a bench comprising justices C Nagappan and M Sathayanarayanan observed there had been a delay of over 11 years in the disposal of the mercy petitions filed by the convicts to the President seeking clemency.
Claiming that Tamils will be happy if the three Rajiv killers are spared the gallows, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Monday "fervently" asked for a cancellation of their death sentence.
The legal counsel for Coimbatore-based Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals (RSCL) said the company would appeal against the Madras High Court order, which held that the company's derivatives contract with Axis Bank is valid.
The Madras high court on Monday said there would be no holiday for schools and colleges on Tuesday and warned Tamil Nadu government that it would be held responsible for any untoward incident and breakdown of law and order in connection with agitations against the conviction of All India Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa.
On April 24, the High Court had directed the EC to register a case against Jayalalithaa following a petition filed by DMK MP C Kuppuswamy alleging that AIADMK leader had suppressed facts and filed nominations from four Assembly constituencies.
In his petition, Kuppusamy had said that during the 2001 polls Jayalalithaa had suppressed the fact that she had filed nominations from four seats and filed a 'false affidavit' saying that she had filed papers from only two constituencies.
A division bench comprising Justice V S Sirpurkar and Justice S M Ibrahim Khallifulla has issued a notice to Vaiko
On June 9, a state government notification had abolished Common Entrance Test and improvement examination with immediate effect.
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