By Matters India Reporter Chennai, May 9, 2022: Christians in Tamil Nadu have expressed surprise that the state’s high court has admitted a public interest litigation to stop forcible conversion of students in schools. The bench of Justices R. Madhavan and S. Ananthi of the Madras High Court on MayContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai: The Madras High Court has set July 8 as the deadline for India’s Catholic bishops and federal and state governments to respond to a petition alleging caste based discrimination within the Church in the country. The court on June 25 issued notices to the CatholicContinue Reading
Chennai: The Madras High Court has directed the Registrar of Companies to inquire into allegations of misuse of the assets of the Church of South India (CSI) Trust Association that has properties worth several trillions of rupees across southern India. In his order, Justice R Mahadevan directed the registrar toContinue Reading
By Meera Emmanuel Chennai, July 29, 2019: The Madras High Court has observed that the Tamil Nadu government appears to have done little to curb honor killings in Tamil Nadu. This, despite the Supreme Court’s directions passed last year in Shakti Vahini v Union of India, the court said afterContinue Reading
Chennai, March 24, 2019: The Madras High Court has held that salaries and grants-in-aid to nuns and priests are liable to attract tax deducted at source. “In our opinion, the provisions of Income-Tax law are dry, plain and simple, apolitical and areligious in character,” the court said in a recentContinue Reading
Chennai, March 19, 2019: The Election Commission on March 19 informed the Madras High Court that it has rejected a plea by the Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council seeking re-scheduling Lok Sabha elections and assembly bypolls in the state. Election Commission (EC) counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan made the submission when a petitionContinue Reading
Chennai, March 19: 2019: The head of the Catholic Church in Tamil Nadu has approached the Madras High Court for change in the general election date in the southern Indian state. “There are two difficulties — the timing and the venue,” Archbishop Antony Pappusamy of Madurai explained the Church’s problemContinue Reading
The transport corporation challenged congregation’s right to claim compensationContinue Reading
Chennai: A Tamil film director has moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to Chennai Commissioner of Police to issue no objection certificate to him to attend the St Antony festival at Kachatheevu, an islet in the Palk Strait. When the plea came up Wednesday before Justice M SContinue Reading
Offices have to sing Vande Mataram at least once a monthContinue Reading
