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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicMadras High Court

Topic: Madras High Court

‘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.

How very similar clean chits in decade-old cases have now landed 2 DMK ministers back on trial

Madras High Court has reopened disproportionate assets cases against DMK ministers KKSSR Ramachandran and Thangam Thennarasu, saying probe agency DVAC had ‘misused its power’.

‘HC seems to be taking liberty carelessly,’ says SC, grants interim bail to YouTuber Savukku Shankar

SC asks if Shankar is a 'threat to national security', tells Madras HC to expedite case. Also says it won't be apt for SC to decide case on merits as HC is still seized of matter.

Take action against lawyers advertising, seeking work via online portals — BCI to state bar councils

Disciplinary action may include suspension or removal from roll of advocates. BCI has also issued cease-and-desist notices to online service providers, asking for removal of 'illegal ads'.

How HC verdict may impact lawyers using Insta reels, LinkedIn profiles to ‘advertise’ their services

Madras HC has ordered Bar Council of India to issue circulars to state bar councils to start disciplinary proceedings against lawyers ‘advertising, soliciting works directly or indirectly’.

Madras HC sets aside deadline to report serious offences under POSH, assault can be investigated anytime

The court ruled that serious incidents of sexual harassment causing mental trauma must be treated as 'continuing offence', which need not be reported within 3 months, as mandated by the POSH Act.

SC sends 8 PFI men back to jail, points to ‘manifest error’ in Madras HC order granting them bail

The bench held in the garb of fighting for rights of minorities, PFI pursued ‘strong communal and anti-national agenda to establish an Islamic rule in India’.

Former Kalakshetra faculty member Sheejith Krishna arrested for ‘sexually assaulting’ 2 ex-students

A preliminary enquiry was conducted based on complaint of the 2 women allegedly assaulted by Krishna between 1995-2007 & a case was registered. He was later remanded to judicial custody.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.