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Established in 2004, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court handles cases in the fourteen southern districts of Tamil Nadu, as the court is located in the far-northern capital. The bench is located in Madurai , and has the Kanyakumari , Tirunelveli , Thoothukudi , Tenkasi , Madurai , Dindigul , Ramanathapuram , Virudhunagar , Theni ...
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 ...
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]
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]
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.
On 22 April 2019 the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) passed a landmark judgment [70] and issued direction to ban Sex-Selective Surgeries on Intersex Infants based on the works of Gopi Shankar, [71] the Court took note of the issue of the rampant practice of compulsory sex reassignment surgeries performed on inter-sex infants and children.
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.
Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri is an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court.Prior to her appointment, she was a politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party.Her selection engendered controversy after lawyers alleged her to have given hate speeches against religious minorities and unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court of India to withdraw the appointment.