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 the Madras High Court held that, the State government is liable to pay compensation to the victims even in cases which remain unsolved for years…
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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 Lacs as compensation for her death said such a view cannot be tolerated and has enhanced the compensation to Rs 6.76 Lacs. Court observed the…
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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 was eligible for family pension even though her husband had died within a year after joining the government service. Court also directed the authorities to…
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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 five days of holidays on occasion of ‘north Indian’ festivals like Diwali, held that, “there is no north-south divide, but for the endeavours of persons…
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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 five days of holidays on occasion of ‘north Indian’ festivals like Diwali, held that, “there is no north-south divide, but for the endeavours of persons…
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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 the Indian drug industry when its patent application was rejected by the highest court of appeal in the country. The rejection was largely a result…
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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 combined penalty of Rs 2,554 crore for failing to sell spare parts in the open market. Hyundai moved the High Court against the summons issued…
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, the Apex Court on Monday lifted a three-year-old ban on hookah smoking holding that prohibition on ‘facilitating’ Hookah smoking in strictly smoking spaces is impermissible…
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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 on a condition that, the producer deposit Rs.5 crore, besides providing a bank guarantee for an equal sum to the credit of the Registrar (Administration)…
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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 least restrict it. High Court also questioned how a Government could run the liquor business when the Constitution advocated total prohibition. Article 47 of the…