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TopicMadras High Court

Topic: Madras High Court

SC stands by Madras HC’s rent waiver for TN shopkeepers during 2020 Covid lockdown. What it said

2-judge SC bench also dismisses a set of appeals filed by various municipal bodies of Tamil Nadu that had challenged multiple High Court orders passed in 2022.

Widow who remarries not disqualified from inheriting 1st husband’s property—HC on Hindu Succession Act

Madras HC also says succession of a property opens up only on the death of its absolute owner and not when a settlement for devolving properties is executed.

Why ED is claiming right to provisionally attach properties even without FIR under predicate offence

Challenging a Madras HC judgment that quashed its provisional attachment orders in the Tamil Nadu illegal sand mining case, ED asserts power citing PMLA sections in SC.

‘Can appeal acquittal in predicate offence’. How Madras HC ruling in Lottery King’s case empowers ED

It quashed a lower court order accepting TN police's closure report in a 2012 cheating case against Santiago Martin based on which ED had started its anti-money laundering probe.

What Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation told SC in plea challenging Madras HC decision

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HC judges’ remarks ‘against monastic tradition, sanatana dharma’. What Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation told SC

Isha Foundation approached SC Thursday to challenge Madras HC’s inquiry order into allegations about a petitioner’s daughter being on a fast unto death.

SC restrains Tamil Nadu police from taking any further action against Sadhguru’s Isha Yoga Centre

The order followed an urgent hearing by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi for the Isha Foundation, as 150 police officers entered the Ashram to investigate per Madras HC's directions.

‘Order isn’t available!’ Incomplete record of HC proceedings in ex-DGP’s case lands SC in fix

Given on 21 August, the order had quashed money-laundering charges against former Tamil Nadu top cop. SC now faces dilemma—how to restore high court order when nothing is on record.

HC strikes down reservation of TN panchayat post for Dalit women, president-elect vows to continue fight

Indhumathi, who was elected unopposed as Nayakaneri panchayat president in 2021, has waged long battle to take oath, says she is ‘being punished for no mistake of hers’.

Quashing ‘Savukku’ Shankar’s detention under Goondas Act, HC questions Tamil Nadu govt’s intentions

Quashing Savukku Shankar's detention under Goondas Act, HC emphasises that speeches criticising govt can't be termed threat to public order.

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Is getting back with an ex a bad idea? It’s Delusion Central

The idea of people ‘changing’ for the better is propaganda we all love to fall for. Everyone has a friend of a friend who ended up marrying their ex.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.