Madras High Court on Thursday rejected the plea for an urgent hearing Habeas Corpus petitions which alleged illegal detention of 130-odd ruling AIADMK MLAs after the Tamil Nadu government said the legislators were staying at the MLAs’ Hostel and “free to move around”. Additional Public Prosecutor, who appeared for the[Read More…]
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Nalini Chidambaram moves Madras HC against ED summons over Saradha scam
Wife of former union minister P Chidambaram, senior lawyer Nalini Chidambaram, has moved the Madras high court against the summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which is after her for receiving a fee of over Rs 1 crore from the beleaguered Saradha Group. In her petition, scheduled to be heard[Read More…]
Bombay, Madras High Courts to undergo change of names
The Bombay and the Madras high courts will soon have names coinciding with the cities of Mumbai and Chennai respectively. The union cabinet on Tuesday has approved a Law Ministry proposal to change the names of these two courts through an Act of Parliament. Such demands to rename the courts[Read More…]
Bombay, Madras High Courts to use new city names
The Law Ministry has proposed a Bill over changing the names of High Courts including Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, as per the present names of the cities “Mumbai” and “Chennai”. The mentioned cities changed from their colonial names to the new ones in the ‘90s, but the high courts had[Read More…]