Shops removed
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The Corporation on Thursday removed shops in Chidambara Nagar market where it proposes to construct a modern commercial complex under the Smart City programme.
Earlier, 60 shops at the market were issued notices asking them to vacate the market. Opposing the move, shopowners and traders approached the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, which set a deadline of May 12 to vacate the shops to facilitate construction of the commercial complex. Since the deadline lapsed on Wednesday, Corporation officials removed the shops with police protection.
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The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday questioned the Central government why Covaxin, the vaccine against COVID-19 which was developed with the assistance of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology (NIV), has been manufactured only at a private institute. The court asked the Centre to explain the amount incurred by the government to procure COVID vaccines and what steps have been taken to revive the vaccine institutes. The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court was also hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to manufacture Covaxin in the Chengalpet HLL unit.
Why Covaxin being manufactured only at pvt institute? Madras HC asks Centre ANI | Updated: May 08, 2021 00:44 IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 8 (ANI): The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday questioned the Central government why Covaxin, the vaccine against COVID-19 which was developed with the assistance of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology (NIV), has been manufactured only at a private institute.
The court asked the Centre to explain the amount incurred by the government to procure COVID vaccines and what steps have been taken to revive the vaccine institutes.
The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court was also hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to manufacture Covaxin in the Chengalpet HLL unit.
HC dismisses plea seeking issue of house site pattas
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The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court dismissed a petition filed by 315 persons who sought a direction to the State government to get the defence lands in K. Abishekapuram in Tiruchi district transferred from the Ministry of Defence and to issue them house site pattas.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh took note of the counter affidavit submitted by Tiruchi Collector that said the petitioners were encroaching up on the land belonging to the Ministry of Defence and they had no right to claim house site patta.
The Estate Officer submitted that the land would be utilised to develop a transient accommodation and canteen facilities for the welfare of the serving and the retired service personnel, as an Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme Polyclinic was constructed opposite the site.
HC dismisses appeal preferred by State government
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Madurai The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court dismissed the appeal preferred by the State government against a Single Bench order that held Public Works Department had to award kudimaramathu works only in favour of farmers organisations constituted under Tamil Nadu Farmers Management of Irrigation Systems Act, 2000.
A Division Bench of Justices N. Kirubakaran and B. Pugalendhi observed that it was a settled position that when the statute requires a particular act to be done in a particular manner, it had to be done in that manner alone and not in any other way. The court said that there was no merit in the appeal.