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A Madras High Court Division Bench holds that a government employee's third-child maternity leave is capped at 12 weeks under amended Fundamental Rule 101(A), overriding earlier High Court precedents.
Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy held that merely recording a 1967 speech calling for Tamil Nadu's secession cannot incite hatred in today's social milieu.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan dismissed the revision petition filed by former Tamil Nadu Minister K. Ponmudi, holding that the trial court rightly took cognizance of hate speech charges without prior sanction.
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court confirmed dissolution of a marriage marked by isolation, body-shaming, and a demand for DNA testing of the wife's child, and reversed a trial court order that had refused to direct return of streedhan articles.
The Madurai Bench held that no custom excluding a community from a public temple festival can survive constitutional scrutiny under Articles 14, 15, 17 and 25.
The Madurai Bench upheld the death penalty awarded to Anandhasekar for aggravated penetrative sexual assault on three children aged six to eight, committed every Saturday over nearly one year.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan quashed proceedings against three HR and CE employees charged with misappropriating temple funds, holding that prosecution evidence pointed solely to the first accused.
Justice P.T. Asha found the suspension of Inspector G. Vimala prima facie motivated, noting the FIR against a fellow officer was lodged only after the Directorate's own approval.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench ordered the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dindigul Rural, to verify a complaint, register an FIR if cognisable offences are disclosed, and preserve digital evidence within four weeks.
Justice Shamim Ahmed held that a Magistrate cannot re-examine eligibility certificates issued by the appropriate authority and that a woman aged 50 years remains eligible until she turns 51.
A Division Bench at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has struck down Section 34-C of the Registration Act, 1908, holding it an unconstitutional resurrection of Rule 55-A already invalidated by the Supreme Court.
The Madurai Bench held that a convert to Islam becomes simply a Muslim and cannot be slotted into a notified backward-class Muslim sect, declaring G.O. (Ms) No. 31 dated 09.03.2024 unconstitutional.
A Division Bench at Madurai held that a Corporation school teacher appointed belatedly due to official inaction retains her right to the old pension scheme, not the contributory scheme.
Justice R. Kalaimathi dismissed the producer's appeal after personally viewing the film, holding that the CBFC's refusal was reasoned and that the offending content ran through the film making cuts impractical.
A five-judge Larger Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside an embargo on leave applications under the Tamil Nadu Suspension of Sentence Rules, 1982, holding that pendency of an appeal is no automatic bar.
The Madurai Bench found that local police ignored the organiser's complaint, skipped video evidence, and filed a hurried final report after advocates attacked a public hearing on illegal quarrying.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench directed Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University to accept an LLM dissertation delayed by pregnancy and childbirth, holding that motherhood cannot be treated as academic default.
The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench allowed a pregnant woman's termination plea, directed DNA preservation of foetal tissue for a Section 69 BNS investigation, and disposed of the original police-harassment writ.
The Madurai Bench held that SC/ST Act offences require caste to be the motive, acquitted on abetment of suicide, and reduced a life-term POCSO sentence under the constitutional bar on ex post facto punishment.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court set aside a trial court decree dismissing a Rs 25 lakh money suit, holding that adverse findings on unchallenged facts without court questions are perverse.
The Madras High Court held that a writ petition seeking directions to scrutinise SC candidates' nomination papers was barred by Article 329(b) and that no legal vacuum existed warranting fresh directions.
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court granted interim injunction against construction of a church on land revenue records describe as a public road, pending disposal of a civil suit filed in 2011.
Justice K. Kumaresh Babu granted an ex parte interim injunction on 17 June 2026, halting the Telugu dubbed OTT release of Drishyam 3 after none of the respondents appeared despite private notice.
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court reversed a Single Judge's order that had allowed attendance-deficient law students to sit their semester examinations, holding that Bar Council of India Rules permit no further relaxation.
