Latest Madras Hc updates from LegalRepublic.in.
Justice L. Victoria Gowri decided four POCSO quashing petitions together, directing trauma-sensitive reforms, a Bar Council enrolment inquiry, and vocational rehabilitation for victims.
The Madurai Bench enhanced compensation for a JCB driver rendered permanently immobile after a second road accident struck the ambulance carrying him from the first crash site.
The Madurai Bench confirmed life imprisonment for a man who recorded and circulated a sexual assault, then intimidated the minor victim until she committed self-immolation, relying on her dying declaration.
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.
