High Court emphasises importance of public libraries, reading habit
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Hearing on petitions challenging amendments to Tamil Nadu Public Libraries Rules
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Hearing on petitions challenging amendments to Tamil Nadu Public Libraries Rules
One of the Constitutional guarantees is providing education to all classes of people and in achieving this target, libraries play a great role. Article 21 A of the Constitution provides for Right to Education to all children. However, libraries are provisioned only in 15% of the villages in the State, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has observed.
The court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging certain amendments made to Tamil Nadu Public Libraries Rules.
Taking note of the fact that an accused in a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act was remanded in judicial custody in 2018 and the trial was yet to commence in the case, the M
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Taking note of the fact that there was a difference of opinion over conduct of a temple festival in Tiruchi district, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court observed that it was an unfortunate case.
After it was submitted that the temple authorities themselves would conduct the event, the court dismissed the petition that sought the conduct of a peace meeting.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi observed that a temple was a place of religious worship, and it was based upon faith. When people go to the temple out of faith, there could not be any difference based upon colour or creed. God does not recognise any community. It only recognises a human being who goes there to pray.
Police personnel Murugan and Muthuraj, accused in the Sattankulam custodial deaths of trader P. Jayaraj and his son J. Benicks, have moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court again seeking bail
HC closes suo motu petition
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court which had initiated suo motu proceedings on a letter written to the High Court Registry by a woman seeking financial assistance, closed the petition on Monday, taking cognisance of the fact that relief was provided to her.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi closed the petition filed in 2018. The woman from Kanniyakumari district wrote a letter to the High Court seeking financial help so that she could provide medical treatment to her mother.
She had said that her mother was in a state of coma since 2000. During childbirth, the woman’s mother was administered local anaesthesia and it had pushed her to the current state, the woman said.