Pay Compensation if police fail to crack cases
While passing interim orders, on a petition filed by the father of a 15-year-old girl, who was murdered for gain in Pudukottai district in March 2011, Justice S Nagamuthu of…
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Madras HC enhances compensation awarded in motor accident case
Justice S. Vimala of Madras HC while slamming a motor accident claims tribunal in the state which considered Rs 15,000 as ‘notional income’ of a house wife, awarded Rs 1.62…
Madras HC directs Health Department to pay Family Pension
Justice D Hariparanthaman of Madras High Court has directed the Health Department authorities to pay the sum of family pension with 10% interest to a widow and said that she…
Madras High Court rejected PIL on festival holidays
Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madras High Court while dismissing a Public Interest Petition (PIL) which objected to the court granting four to…
There is no north-south divide, says Madras HC
Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayanan of Madras High Court while dismissing a Public Interest Petition (PIL) which objected to the court granting four to…
Novartis AG v. Union of India and Glivec patenting
Reasons, Results and Repercussions of India’s fight against evergreening Preena Salgia, Student of Law, NLIU, Bhopal Glivec, an anti-cancer drug developed by the pharmaceutical giant Novartis, created a furore in…
CCI not to take any action against Hyundai
Madras High Court has asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) not to proceed with any action against Hyundai. Hyundai is among one of the 14 carmakers slapped with a…
Supreme Court lifted the ban on sale and use of Hookah in smoking zones
A bench headed by justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Apex Court held that smoking prohibition only extended to public places and not spaces earmarked for smoking. In a landmark judgment,…
Lingaa release, producers to deposit 10 Crore rupees
Madurai bench of Madras High Court Bench while hearing a writ appeal filed by an aspiring filmmaker, K.R. Ravi Rathinam permitted the release of the Rajinikanth starrer Tamil movie Lingaa…
Government cannot run Liquor Business
While passing an interim order in a motor accident compensation case, Madras High Court said that, if Governments cannot bring about total prohibition on sale of liquor, they should at…