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The Madurai Bench began functioning in 2004. The vestiges of the colonial High Court characterise the premises. Justices of the Madras High Court are led by orderlies who bear a ceremonial mace made of silver. Most High Courts and the Supreme Court of India either never had the practice or abandoned it. [15]
On 9 February 2008, he was appointed as an Additional Advocate General to the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. On 31 March 2009, he was appointed as an Additional judge of the Madras High Court and was made a permanent judge on 3 January 2012. On 22 September 2022, he was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. [1]
In 2014, he was chosen as the Assistant Solicitor General of India for the High Court's Madurai Bench. [1] There were allegations that Swaminathan, during his tenure as an Additional Solicitor General, had participated in a programme organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party. [3] He was Judge of the Madras High Court on 28 June 2017. [2]
Following the complaint, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court began a suo motu contempt of court proceeding and ordered the Inspector General of Police for the South Zone to take action against the officers. The Inspector General suspended Maharajan; D Kumar, ADSP, and C Prathapan, DSP was moved to a waiting list.
The number of judges in a court is decided by dividing the average institution of main cases during the last five years by the national average, or the average rate of disposal of main cases per judge per year in that high court, whichever is higher. The Madras High Court is the oldest high court in the country, established on 26 June 1862 ...
Arun Kumar & Anr. versus Inspector General of Registration & Ors. (2019) is a decision of the Madras High Court which recognised trans woman as a "bride" within the meaning of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 and prohibited genital-normalizing surgery (referred to as sex reassignment surgery in the case) for intersex infants and children except on life-threatening situations.
S. Rajeswaran, as a sitting Judge of Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, had dealt with a case involving the custody of a 5-year-old child from Mexico. The father of the child (who was a Mexican working as a professor in a private Educational Institution at Krishnankoil , Tamil Nadu) was charged for murdering the mother of the child and ...
C. V. Karthikeyan [1] is a sitting Judge of the Madras High Court. He is one of the Members of the Board of Governors of the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy. Justice C. V. Karthikeyan was appointed Additional Judge, High Court of Madras on 6 October 2016. [2]