After obtaining consent from Advocate-General R Shanmugasundaram on July 18 this year to file the contempt application, Dhoni preferred the present contempt application on October 11 this year to punish Sampath Kumar for his alleged action of making remarks against the judiciary in violation of the court's interim order passed in 2014.
It was a triangular session, with the judge hearing the case from Nagercoil, petitioner's counsel V Raghavachari at one place and advocate-general R Shanmugasundaram, at another place, in the city.
The bench declared as unconstitutional, Part II of the TN Gaming & Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, which banned betting or wagering in cyberspace and also games of skill if played for a wager, bet, money or other stakes.
In an observation that came against the backdrop of a raging debate over the 'hijab' row in Karnataka, the first bench of Acting Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthi bemoaned that of late, certain forces have raised controversies relating to dress code and it is spreading all over India.
The district sessions court, which is hearing the sensational Kodanadu heist and murder case, on Friday adjourned it for September 2 following argument by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam lawyers that the case cannot be taken up as another case is pending in Madras high court in this regard.
The Madras high court on Wednesday declined to grant a total stay against the 10.5 per cent Vanniyar quota but held that admission in higher educational institutions and appointment in government services will be subject to the outcome of the batch of petitions challenging the same.
'Nobody will think like him. It was a treat for us to listen to him. He was meticulous in his argument. We got trained by listening to him,' says senior criminal lawyer R Shanmugasundaram, who had known Ram Jethmalani for almost 40 years.
E K Palaniswami had won the trust vote 122-11 in the 234-member assembly aided by the eviction of main opposition DMK and walkout by its allies, amid stormy scenes during which mikes were uprooted, chairs toppled and sheets of papers torn.
"Have you obtained the permission of the Supreme Court (which had upheld the NEET). Would it not amount to violation of the ruling of the apex court?" were among the questions raised by the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy.
'It shows that they cannot manage the situation with the forces in their hand.'
M Gopalakrishnan and two others are sentenced to one-year imprisonment for causing wrongful loss of Rs 3 crore to the bank.
Kanimozhi, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Member of Parliament and daughter of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, who was arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum case, will move the Delhi high court for bail. A day after her arrest, the DMK MP on Saturday looked calm and composed before the special court during the day-long proceedings. She was escorted to the courtroom by women constables, and did not talk much while she sat next to her husband Aravindan.
'The prime minister's advisers might have told him that going along with this AIADMK government will damage his image.'
"It is me in the video, but the voice is not mine," Saravanan told reporters.
Stalin's sister and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi will for the first time try her luck in the Lok Sabha.
The video recording of the House proceedings on February 18 must be from the commencement till the end, the court said.
Another bill related to the farm sector, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, was passed on Tuesday.
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