'In Larger Interest Of Country': Madras HC Recommends Resuming Reservation Of 2 Seats In MBBS/BDS Course For PM Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awardees

The Madras High Court has recommended the Ministry of Women and Child Development to resume reserving two seats in MBBS and BDs courses for students who have been conferred with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar. While the court agreed that discontinuing the reservation is a policy decision of the government, the bench of Justice RMT Teekaa Raman and Justice N...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Making Four Additional Judges Of Madras High Court Permanent

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended making four additional judges of the Madras High Court as permanent.In its meeting held on 20th February, 2025, the collegium has proposed the appointment of following judges as the permanent judges of Madras High Court:(i) Justice Ramasamy Sakthivel(ii) Justice P Dhanabal(iii) Justice Chinnasamy Kumarappan, and (iv) Justice Kandasamy...

Parents Strained Relationship Shall Not Affect Child's Welfare: Madras HC Asks MEA, Indian Consulate In US To Renew Minor's Passport

The Madras High Court recently asked the Ministry of External Affairs and the Consulate General of India in Houston, USA to renew the passport of a 10th-grade minor girl living in the USA with her father. The application for renewal was rejected by the consulate for want of the mother's signature. Justice S Sounthar noted that the relationship between the father and the mother had...

Govt Cannot Routinely Regularise Unauthorised Buildings By Invoking Exemption Under Town & Country Planning Act: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has recently observed that regularisation of unauthorized construction cannot be claimed as an absolute right and the government was not expected to regularise such unauthorized buildings in a routine manner by invoking the exemption under the Town and Country Planning Act. “Regularization of unauthorized construction cannot be claimed as an absolute right. It is...

Madras High Court Asks Director Of Medical Education To Conduct Awareness Programmes To Update LGBTQ+ Issues, Include Speakers From Community

The Madras High Court has directed the Director of Medical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu to conduct awareness programs for updating the LGBTQIA+ issues based competency available in the medical education curriculum in all Government and Private Medical Colleges. The court also emphasised the need to include speakers from the LGBTQIA+ community to address theor issued and to...

Madras HC Declines Student's Plea To Condone Attendance Shortage, Says It Would Amount To Mocking Students Who Attend Classes Regularly

The Madras High Court recently refused relief to a student who had approached the court seeking condonation of deficiency of attendance. Calling him an “unfortunate student who wanted to ride two horses” the bench of Justice R Subramanian and Justice C Kumarappan noted that if the court chose to sympathize with the student, it would only be misplaced sympathy and amount to...

'Foisted False Case With Malafide Intention': Madras High Court Transfers Cases Against Whistleblower-Journalist To CB-CID

The Madras High Court has recently transferred pending cases against a whistleblower journalist to the Crime Brance – Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) citing that the Commissioner of Police (Vepery) and the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Central Crime Branch) seemed to have foisted false cases with malicious intention. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan observed that though it...

Madras High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Illegal Beach Sand Mining, Says 'Political Nexus' Cannot Be Ruled Out

The Madras High Court has ordered a CBI probe into the large-scale illegal mining of beach sand that has caused a huge loss to the Tamil Nadu state exchequer to the tune of ₹5,832 Crore. The division bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice M Jothiraman held that the facts of the issue- granting mining lease/approvals, permitting illegal inclusion of monazite in mining lease,...

Trial Courts Cannot Deny Video Conferencing Facility To Lawyers, Litigants: Madras High Court

While directing the Puzhal prison authorities to ensure basic facilities to an undertrial prisoner, the Madras High Court highlighted that video conferencing facility, on which the High Court has even framed rules, cannot be denied to lawyers by the trial/special courts. The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice M Jothiraman was hearing the plea of an undertrial prisoner accused in...

Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 10 - February 16, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 53 To 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 60 NOMINAL INDEX Kajendran J v. Superintendent of Police and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 53 T Ramalakshmi v. The State and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 54 Mr VA. Pugazhendi v. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 55 Jeyakumari v Stephen, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 56 M/s. Ultimate Computer Care v. M/s. S....

Madras High Court Refuses To Quash Cheating Case Against Drone Manufacturing Company, Says Sufficient Material To Proceed

The Madras High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by Drone Manufacturing company – Ideaforge, seeking to quash a cheating case registered against it by Garuda Aerospace Pvt Ltd. Justice P Velmurugan noted that the grounds taken by Ideaforge to quash the case was in the nature of defence which could be decided only at the time of trial. The court also noted that there was...

Madras High Court Stays Single Judge Order Directing Enquiry Against Customs Officers For Seizing 'Thalikodi' Of Newly Married Woman

A division bench of the Madras High Court has stayed a single judge order directing inquiry against Customs officers who forcefully removed the thali of a newly married woman on suspicion of smuggling gold. The division bench of Justice SS Sundar and Justice C Saravanan stayed the order of Justice Krishnan Ramasamy on an appeal filed by the Principal Commissioner of Customs,...