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HC comes to rescue of medical aspirant
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Madurai Bench asks government to give her a seat in the next academic year
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Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 22/10/2019: A view of Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, in Madurai. Photo: R. Ashok / The Hindu
Madurai Bench asks government to give her a seat in the next academic year
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court took note of the plight of a medical aspirant, who missed out on a seat under the 7.5% quota for NEET-qualified government school students.
She studied at a private school up to Class VI under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act and from Class VII at a government school.
Suspended police officer moves HC challenging trial court order
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Suspended Sub-Inspector of Police P. Raghu Ganesh, accused in the Sattankulam custodial death case of trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benicks, has moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking to set aside an order passed by the trial court.
In his criminal revision petition, Raghu Ganesh said the trial in the case was pending before the First Additional Sessions Court in Madurai. He had filed a transfer petition before the Supreme Court contending that intervention and monitoring of the case by the Madras High Court would not be in the interest of a free and fair trial. The petition was admitted by the Supreme Court and notice was ordered.
CoP told to conduct probe on image used in signboards
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AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Madurai Commissioner of Police to probe into a 2012 incident where the image of a youth was wrongly used in signboards to caution the devotees of thieves during the Chithirai festival.
Hearing the appeal filed by the youth, A Division Bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and S. Kannammal directed the Police Commissioner to take appropriate action against the erring police personnel.
The youth preferred an appeal against a single bench order that dismissed his plea for compensation and appropriate action against the erring police personnel. He said that he was booked by the police after he was involved in a scuffle with his college mates. He claimed that the police had foisted a case against him. He was arrested, remanded in police custody and released on the same day on bail in 2011. Under these circumstances, the police used
HC directs DGP to take action against Inspector involved in ‘katta panchayat’
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Only the judiciary must resolve civil disputes and not the police, says judge
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Only the judiciary must resolve civil disputes and not the police, says judge The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Director General of Police to initiate departmental proceedings against an Inspector of Police of the District Crime Branch in Pudukkottai district, after taking a serious note of the fact that the Inspector was involved in a ‘katta panchayat.’
Justice R. Hemalatha observed that the function of resolving civil disputes was entrusted to the judiciary and not to police officers. The courts have time and again deprecated the initiation of false criminal proceedings in cases having elements of a civil dispute, the judge said.