Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: March 3 to March 9, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 81 To 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 95 NOMINAL INDEX Prof. Dr. R. Manonmani and Others v. The State of Tamil Nadu and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 81Bhuvaneswari and others v. M/s. Bvm Storage Solutions Pvt Ltd and Another, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 82Regina Begum v The State, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 83L V Sarojini v The District Collector and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 84C. Ganesan v The Commissioner, HR & CE Department, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 85The State v MK Alagiri, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 86B Manickam Tagore v. V Vijaya Prabakaran and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 87Nupur J Sharma And Another v. The Inspector of Police and Another, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 88News Tamil 24x7 v. Shruthi Thilak and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 89Venkatesh Sowrirajan v. The Union Territory of Puducherry and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 90Y Babu v. The Inspector of Police, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 91ML Ravi v Election Commission of India and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 92Ammavasithevar v. KR Chitran and others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 93The State of Tamil Nadu and Others v. The Principal Secretary, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 94Dr S John William v. Loyola College (Autonomous), 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 95REPORT Administrative Delay, Acts of Court Shouldn't Come In Way: Madras HC Directs State To Promote Eligible Professors As Dean In Govt Medical Colleges Case Title: Prof. Dr. R. Manonmani and Others v. The State of Tamil Nadu and Others Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 81 The Madras High Court has directed the State government to appoint professors specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Surgery and Orthopaedics, to the post of Dean in Government Medical Colleges, whose promotion was delayed due to an oral order of the court and imposition of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in light of the 2019 general elections. Justice Anand Venkatesh in his order observed, “In the case in hand, there was an oral direction issued by the Madurai Bench of this Court not to issue the promotion and transfer order till a particular date and ultimately, those writ petitions were dismissed as withdrawn. This oral direction issued by the Madurai Bench of this Court should not act prejudicial to the rights of the petitioners, who would have otherwise got the promotion and transfer orders along with others on 28.2.2019 when the Medical Officers working in the other 22 specialities were issued with the promotion and transfer orders". The court noted that the Government delayed the promotion of the individuals due to an oral instruction by the court asking the state not to issue any promotion order until a challenge to the same was heard. The court noted that the petitioners, who were otherwise eligible to be appointed as Deans, should not be denied the opportunity when they were not at fault. The court added that no person should suffer due to the act of the court. Insurance Company Liable To Pay Compensation Even If Driver Was Intoxicated At Time Of Accident: Madras High Court Case Title: Bhuvaneswari and others v. M/s. Bvm Storage Solutions Pvt Ltd and Another. Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 82 The Madras High Court has recently observed that the Insurance company would be liable to pay compensation to the family of the deceased even if the driver of the vehicle that was involved in the accident was under the influence of alcohol at the time. Justice M Dhandapani followed a decision of the Kerala High Court in Muhammed Rashid @ Rashid vs. Girivasan E.K and held that even if the policy document had a condition that driving of vehicle in an intoxicated condition is violation of terms and conditions of the policy, the Insurance company would still be liable to pay the compensation. Convicted Prisoner Too Has Right To Marry: Madras High Court While Granting Emergency Leave To Life Convict Case Title: Regina Begum v The State Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 83 Noting that a convicted prisoner has a right to marry, the Madras High Court recently granted emergency leave to a prisoner for 15 days with the necessary escort for his marriage. The court passed the orders on January 3rd, 2025, enabling the prisoner to solemnize his marriage that was to take place on January 15, 2025. The bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice R Poornima relied on Rule 6 of the Tamil Nadu Suspension of Sentence Rules 1982 which states that an emergency leave may be granted to a prisoner for attending death or serious illness of father, mother, wife, husband, son, daughter, full brother or full sister, or the wedding of the prisoner or son, daughter, full brother or full sister and for delivery outside the prison in case of female pregnant prisoner. The court remarked that when the rule expressly provides for the grant of leave, the court could not contrarily dispose of such pleas. The court also disagreed with the practice adopted by some jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, where a life convict was not granted...

Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: March 3 to March 9, 2025

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