The Madras High Court has issued notice in a petition challenging provisions of the Passport Rules, 1980 (passport rules) which require the submission of Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) certificate by transgender persons for gender determination as illegal and unconstitutional. The petition was filed by Sivakumar TD, co-founder of “Nirangal”,
A Madras High Court bench has issued notices to the Central and the Tamil Nadu governments over the tourist town of Mamallapuram becoming a “dirty place” again, a month after it was cleaned and spruced for the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese
In a judgment passed last month, the Madras High Court has clarified that marrying a person of scheduled caste does not entitle one to claim a change in caste for the purpose of reservation. A Division Bench of Justices R Subbiah and C Saravanan passed the judgment to this
The Madras High Court recently emphasised that the Court has to ordinarily believe the child in cases of child rape, rather than be influenced by misconceptions that children lie or that they may be tutored. In this regard, Justice S Vaidyanathan observed, “In cases of rape victims, the Court has to believe
The Madras High Court has censured the Tamil Nadu government for terming a proposal for uninterrupted supply of water to a group of villages “technically not feasible”, while drawing a contrast with India’s space missions to the Moon and a planned programme to study the
The Madras High Court has issued notice to various authorities in a PIL filed by the Chennai Financial Markets and Accountability (CFMA) concerning the NSE Co-location scam. A Bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee has issued notice to the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the Securities Exchange Board of India
After a letter threatening to detonate a bomb at the Madras High Court was received by the Court’s Registrar General on Monday, security has been tightened in and around the High Court premises. A circular issued by the Additional Deputy Commission of Police on Tuesday
The Madras High Court recently had occasion to sound a sympathetic note for the heavy caseload that Family Court judges in the state are faced with. In this regard, Justice PN Prakash remarked, “We are conscious of the fact that though there are six Family Courts
Various lawyers’ associations of the Madras High Court have announced a one-day Court boycott tomorrow, in protest of the Supreme Court Collegium’s decision to transfer Madras High Court Chief Justice VK Tahilramani to Meghalaya. In this regard, a circular issued by the Madras High Court
In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 217 Clause (1) of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, has appointed Smt. Justice S. Ramathilagam. Smt. Justice R. Tharani Shri Justice P. Rajamanickam Smt. Justice T. Krishnavalli Shri