Madras High Court

Tamil Nadu HRCE informs Madras HC it won’t build a shopping complex in front of Tiruvannamalai Temple: Read arguments made by petitioner TR Ramesh

The Madras High Court issued an order banning development on the grounds of Arunachaleswarar temple in Tiruvannamalai's Rajagopuram.

Madras HC declares amendment to Tamil Nadu law on Waqf properties unconstitutional, rules only Waqf tribunals can evict encroachments

A Bench of Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy struck down the provisions that enabled the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board Chief Executive Officer to order the eviction…

Watching child pornography may not be an offence, but children being used in pornography will be an offence: Supreme Court bench led by CJI

The Madras High Court recently in its ruling stated that solely downloading and watching child pornography isn't illegal.

Tamil Nadu police clears Sadguru’s Isha Foundation in missing persons case, tells Madras HC that most volunteers have returned

Tamil Nadu police stated that five out of the six volunteers who disappeared from Isha Foundation’s yoga centre in Coimbatore returned after departing for private reasons.

Gross misuse of power by Police machinery: Supreme Court expresses shock over Police tutoring witnesses, asks Tamil Nadu DGP to take action against erring Police officers

After slamming the Police, the apex court directed Tamil Nadu's Director General of Police (DGP) to initiate a probe and take action against the erring police officials in accordance with…

YouTuber, who alleged that RSS-affiliated Seva Bharati Trust wants to eradicate Christians, ordered to pay ₹50 lakhs for defamation by Madras High Court

YouTuber Surender alias Naathikan said in his video that Seva Bharati Trust is involved in the custodial deaths of two Christian men and that the trust wanted to eradicate Christianity.

Madras High Court makes changes in judgment that said ‘Varnas can’t be blamed’, now says ‘caste categorisation is a recent phenomenon’

Madras HC erlier said, "Origins of the caste system as we know it today are less than a century old." Now, it says that Caste categorisation is a recent phenomenon.

Origins of caste system are less than a century old, can’t lay blame on ancient Varna system alone: Madras High Court

The caste system as we know it now is less than a century old, and the caste difference cannot be linked only to the ancient Varna system, stated the Madras High…

Gross impropriety: Supreme Court quashes verdict of former Madras High Court judge who delivered judgement 5 months after his retirement

Supreme Court asserted that retaining the case file after demitting office is a “gross impropriety”. Consequently, the bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan remitted the appeal to…

‘Not every stone on the roadside can be a religious idol’: Madras HC rules as petitioner claims a ‘stone’ at the entrance of his property was being worshipped by locals

Justice Venkatesh asserted that it would be impossible for a court to decide whether the stone had been uplifted to the status of an idol.