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Justice M. Nirmal Kumar quashed trial court proceedings against 15 petitioners charged under BNS for assembling without permission at a Vijayadasami and RSS centenary event in Ambur, finding no independent witnesses and no evidence of any prohibitory order.
The Madurai Bench upheld a divorce decree, holding that a wife's complaints to her Army husband's superiors and her admitted removal of the thali amounted to mental cruelty under the Hindu Marriage Act.
The Madurai Bench set aside life sentences in a 2012 double murder, finding the investigating officer failed to examine vital witnesses and may not have visited the scene at all.
A Madras High Court Division Bench quashed the preventive detention of a property developer as a Goonda, holding that contractual fraud cannot disturb public order and censuring the detaining officer by name.
A Madras High Court Division Bench allowed a Coimbatore activist's writ petition, directing the State to prevent cow and calf slaughter on Bakrid, citing Article 48, Tamil Nadu law, and a Government Order banning cow slaughter.
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court refused to ban the Tamil film 'Karuppu', holding that its portrayal of a corrupt fictional court attracts neither contempt law nor grounds for a ban after CBFC clearance.
