The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has upheld the dismissal of a Grade-II Warden of the Central Prison, Madurai, holding that in the absence of a presenting officer the enquiry officer may put clarificatory questions to witnesses, and that the limited scope of judicial review did not warrant interference.
Hearing SASTRA University’s plea against eviction from government land in Thanjavur, the Supreme Court asked Tamil Nadu to consider accepting alternate land, or its market value, rather than demolishing an academic building, calling the State’s insistence on eviction ‘obstinate’. The Court said it would have ‘thrown out’ a commercial encroacher, but the land housed an educational institution, and questioned why the State’s open-air jail project had stalled since 1985. The State sought time for instructions.
“People in Chennai should not alienate Delhi and vice versa,” the Supreme Court observed, invoking cooperative federalism as it urged Tamil Nadu to reconsider its opposition to Navodaya schools, while directing the State to identify land and to resolve its language-policy differences with the Centre through dialogue. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the […]
The Madras High Court allowed Tamil Nadu to issue compassionate appointment orders to families of the 41 Karur stampede victims but directed that the jobs remain temporary, subject to the outcome of pending proceedings. The Court declined to interfere with the government’s policy decision at this stage.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear an application alleging Tamil Nadu ministers accused in the Karur stampede case are influencing witnesses during the CBI investigation. The Bench listed the matter for July 8 after being informed of fresh developments requiring judicial intervention in the ongoing probe.
The Madras High Court directed the Election Commission of India to furnish election records relating to Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin to an unsuccessful candidate seeking to challenge the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni election result. The Court held that delaying access to documents cannot defeat a candidate’s statutory right to file an election petition.
The Madras High Court refused to ban the Tamil film Karuppu, observing that portraying judicial corruption and criticising the judiciary cannot automatically amount to contempt, while emphasising that judges are not beyond scrutiny and freedom of artistic expression must be protected in a democratic society.
