The Madras High Court on Tuesday restrained Music Academy from conferring the award, instituted after legendary carnatic singer M S Subbulakshmi, on renowned vocalist T M Krishna.
Quashing the murder case against the woman, Justice G Jayachandran of the Madras High Court held that the right to private defence is available not only to a victim of sexual assault but also to those who rescue her.
Reverting the cases to the special court for cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA), Justice N Anand Venkatesh said, “As prima facie materials are available to frame charges, the special court shall proceed to frame charges, and thereafter proceed in accordance with law.”
Coming down heavily on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a shoddy report on the 2018 police firing on anti-Sterlite protestors in coastal Thoothukudi, the Madras High Court has said it showed a bias in favour of one industrialist and absolve those officers responsible.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Madras High Court order, which quashed a May 2018 notification prohibiting sale, manufacture, and transport of gutkha, and other tobacco-based products in Tamil Nadu.
The bench, however, refused to grant any interim order staying the operation of the rule as no adverse action has been initiated against the petitioner as of now
The Madras HC had in May suggested the state government to convert a part of late J Jayalalithaa’s residence Veda Nilayam as a memorial while adding that a part of her residence could also be used as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s office.
The Madras HC had transferred the case to the CBCID as an interim measure to protect evidence till the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) takes up the case, as decided by the Tamil Nadu government.
In 2016, V Shankar a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married C Kausalya an upper caste woman, was hacked to death in front of her by a gang hired by Kausalya's family in broad daylight at a public place in Tamil Nadu.
Nalini, who is lodged in the Special Prison for Women in Vellore for the last over 27 years, has sent a letter to PM Modi and Madras HC Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi demanding mercy killing
