Madras High Court stays appointment of former Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan as NGT member
NEW DELHI: The Madras High Court on Friday stayed a Union Environment Ministry order, appointing former Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan as an expert member of the southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy granted the injunction while passing interim orders […]
Toll fee high, compared to facilities: Madras High Court
CHENNAI: Observing that the fee collected by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at its toll plazas in Tamil Nadu were high, compared to the facilities provided, the Madras High Court on Thursday advised NHAI to improve the infrastructural facilities there. The introduction of FasTag, a computerised toll collection system, has not eased the […]
Madras High Court gets 10 additional judges
NEW DELHI: The President of India, in exercise of the power conferred by clause (l) of Article 224 of the Constitution of India, appointed Justices Govindarajulu Chandrasekharan, A.A. Nakkiran, Veerasamy Sivagnanam, Ganesan Ilangovan, Ananthi Subramanian, Kannammal Shanmuga Sundaram, Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup, Murali Shankar Kuppuraju, Miss Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah, and Thamilselvi T. Valayapalayam, as Additional Judges […]
Madras High Court doesn’t permit Wadhawans to sell its assets: 63 moons
NEW DELHI: 63 moons technologies have said the Wadhawans are restrained from selling or alienating or encumbering even an inch of their assets as per the directions of the Madras High Court. The company has urged the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to arrest Kapil Wadhawan, the jailed promoter of […]
Madras High Court grants Nalini Chidambaram interim protection from arrest
CHENNAI: In a breather for former finance minister P Chidambaram’s wife Nalini, the Madras High Court on Saturday granted her interim protection from arrest by the CBI in the Saradha chit fund case till she obtained regular anticipatory bail from a jurisdictional court in West Bengal. Justice G K Illanthiraiyan passed the interim order at […]
Madras High Court grants interim relief to Tamil Nadu schools from property tax
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Friday issued an interim stay on amendments to state legislations that brought educational institutions in Tamil Nadu’s municipal areas under the property tax ambit of local authorities. A division bench comprising Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad, after hearing a Public Interest Litigation plea from All India Private Educational […]