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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The court cleared charges of other eleven accused, including three teachers, six education department officials, and two municipality officers. [24] [25] The bench of Madras High Court in Madurai allowed the appeal filed by the state government against the release of 11 accused in the case on 13 September 2014.
The investigating agencies then traced the owner of the truck to be Vaidyanathan and arrested him in Chennai.However, after inquiry and investigation carried out by the high court of Madras, it was concurred that there was no iota of proof against the accused Mr. N. Vaidhyanathan and the case was discharged. Court discharged the case under the ...
The Madras High Court was established on 26 June 1862 and is the highest judicial authority of the state with control over all the civil and criminal courts in the state. [9] It is headed by a Chief Justice, a position currently held by K. R. Shriram. [10] The court is based out of Chennai and has a bench at Madurai since 2004. [11]