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New Indian Express
21 hours ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Advisory board to validate Goondas Act cases inaugurated in Madurai
MADURAI: The additional advisory board to validate Goondas Act cases was inaugurated in Madurai on Monday. Retired judge Kamaluddin Nazeerulla Basha will be the chairman of the board and judges Aruna Jagadeesan and S Ananthi will be members. Speaking to reporters Basha said the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court played a major role in establishing the board in Madurai and the state government acted quickly in arranging everything for its functioning. Stating the purpose of the board in Madurai, Basha said it is difficult for police to transfer a detainee from Kanniyakumari to Chennai. To avoid such difficulties, the board has been established in Madurai, which covers 20 districts, including Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Thanjavur, Pudukottai, Karur, Tiruchy, Ariyalur, Nagapattinam, Perambalur, Tiruvarur, and ten southern districts. Explaining the process, Basha said police will request the detaining authority (collector/commissioner of police) to issue orders for detention under the Goondas Act to prevent the detainee from committing the crime again, breaching public order, or being a habitual offender. They then will produce the detained person before the board. The board ensures the detainee understands why they are being detained under the act so that they can challenge it. 'We can either dismiss the detention order or accept it, which will be conveyed to the state government. The board will check all aspects, including whether the detention is legal or against the law. Once detention is confirmed, the accused will remain in prison for a year without bail from the date the detention order is passed,' he said.
New Indian Express
4 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Quarry accident in Sivaganga: Plea seeks action against government officials
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday issued notice to the state government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought action against government officials whose negligence allegedly led to the death of six people in a stone quarry accident in Mallankottai village in Sivaganga in May this year. According to the litigant, SMA Pon Gandhimathinathan of Thoothukudi, several illegal activities took place in the quarry and M-sand produced was being transported day and night in violation of rules. Despite complaints, authorities failed to take action, he added. On May 20, there was a sudden rock slide in the quarry in which five workers died on the spot and one succumbed to injuries later, he added. Claiming that the accident took place due to lack of preventive steps by the authorities against illegal quarrying, the litigant sought action against them. He further requested the court to direct the collector to form a special cell at district level to review the matter on a monthly basis and fix responsibility on the officials concerned. He also sought a direction to constitute a district and taluk level task forces to curtail the menace and minimize the loss to the government. A bench of justices SM Subramaniam and AD Maria Clete issued notice to the authorities concerned and adjourned the case.
New Indian Express
26-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Medical certificate enough for disabled to get family pension: Madurai bench of Madras HC
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has observed that pensioners' children, who suffer intellectual disability, should be given family pension on submission of medical certificate evidencing his or her incapacity to earn livelihood on their own, without insisting on certificate denoting income from all sources. A bench of justices GR Swaminathan and K Rajasekar made the observation recently while hearing an appeal filed by the principal accountant general of Tamil Nadu against an order passed by the court directing payment of family pension to the intellectually challenged son of a forester. While hearing the appeal, the judges said though the order had been complied with in this case, the daughter of a late judge with similar difficulties was not lucky and expressed anguish over the delay. The judges recalled that the widow of former acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court TS Arunachalam received pension since 2020. After her death in June 2024, their younger daughter filed an application seeking family pension for her sister, who has physical and intellectual disability. After submission of all documents, the accountant general's (AG's) office forwarded it to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice to obtain sanction from the President of India. Later, the AG's office forwarded a letter from the Government of India seeking the very same set of documents and the matter is pending at this stage, the judges noted. Expressing anguish over her struggle in getting pension, the judges called upon the Registrar General of Madras High Court to liaison with the authorities concerned and ensure that she gets family pension at the earliest. They pointed out that both the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules and the Tamil Nadu Pension Rules make it clear that the son or daughter suffering from disorder or disability of mind, which prevents him or her from earning livelihood, will be entitled to family pension for life after the demise of the parents, upon production of a medical certificate proving the disability. When the statutory rule doesn't mention requirement of any other document, the authority cannot ask for anything more, the judges added. This issue was settled by the Supreme Court three decades ago and the said decision has been consistently followed.
New Indian Express
09-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Don't permit statues in public places: Madras HC
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has advised the state government not to grant permission to install statues in public places, as it violates Supreme Court's order. A bench of justices SM Subramaniam and AD Maria Clete made the observations recently on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by R Palsamy, a Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) functionary, seeking a direction to the government to stop the installation of bronze statue and name board of late Chief Minister M Karunanidhi near the entrance of Valliyur daily vegetable market in Vadakku Valliyur selection grade town panchayat in Radhapuram taluk of Tirunelveli district. The judges recalled an order passed by the Principal Seat at Madras in 2021, wherein the state government had been directed to establish special parks called 'Leaders' Parks', so that statues erected in public places could be relocated there.
New Indian Express
05-06-2025
- Health
- New Indian Express
TN government opening hospitals, liquor shops simultaneously is ironic: Madras HC
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has observed that a welfare government should strive to enforce prohibition rather than establishing more Tasmac shops. 'When right to health is a fundamental right, the state must ensure that prohibition is slowly implemented in a phased manner to reduce harm to public health,' a bench comprising justices SM Subramaniam and AD Maria Clete observed while allowing a petition by K Kannan, seeking closure of a Tasmac shop located on Tiruchy Road in Dindigul district. Kannan said two schools are located within 50 metres from the Tasmac shop. A church and a government hospital are also situated nearby, he added. Counsel for Tasmac said the distance restriction of 50 metres under the Tamil Nadu Liquor Retail Vending (in Shops and Bars) Rules, 2003, would not apply to the shop, as it is situated in a commercial area.
