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Illegal telephone exchange case: Special CBI Court frames charges against Maran brothers and five others

The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed the plea of former Union telecom minister Dayanadhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and five others against the Madras High Court order setting aside their discharge in the case.

SC refuses to stay the NGT order on Tuticorin Sterlite plant reopening

Earlier Madras High Court had set aside NGT’s order of reopening the Sterlite Plant.

Madras High Court orders status quo in the Sterlite Copper plant case, rolls back NGT’s order of reopening it

The Bench passed the order on the petition of MDMK politician and activist Fatima Babu who was protesting the reopening of the plant.

Madras HC quashes TN govt order, appoints Pon Manickavel as special officer for idol wing

The state government and Pon Manickavel have been at loggerheads with each other for a while. The government had tried to transfer all cases of the idol wing to the CBI citing the IG’s 'unsatisfactory performance'.

‘They were trying to fix me’, Pon Manickavel tells Court, State govt directed to not take adverse action without permission

The state government and Pon Manickavel have been at loggerheads with each other for a while.

‘Who decides that they are stolen idols?’ asks Madras HC, ‘I decide’, replies IG Pon Manickavel

The Court then directed IG Pon Manickavel to put his submissions in writing.

Amidst rampant idol thefts from temples, Tamil Nadu govt to transfer all such cases to CBI

About 1200 ancient idols are believed to have been stolen between 1992 and 2017

Madras HC rules that public places cannot be encroached upon for offering prayers

The High Court has thus ordered the removal of illegal encroachment

Sathyasri Sharmila, against all odds, becomes the first transgender lawyer in Tamil Nadu

This step shows the inclusiveness of the society, where are spaces are being created for transgender community.

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