High Court

Saravana Bhavan founder Rajagopal dies

2:28 pm July 18, 2019

Chennai: Restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan founder P Rajagopal died at a private hospital here Thursday, days after he surrendered to serve a life sentence for killing an employee in 2001 to marry his wife. Rajagopal, 73, died around 10 am of “septic shock” at Vijaya Health Centre, sources at the hospital said, refusing to give […]

Jailed criminal fears threat to life

2:36 pm July 9, 2019

Lucknow: Dreaded underworld don Sanjeev Maheshwari, alias Jeeva, lodged in the state capital jail fears threat to life, his wife Payal Maheshwari alleged on Tuesday and demanded authorities to provide adequate security to him. “He (Jeeva) should be provided adequate security as directed by the high court. My husband can be killed in custody and […]

Cong accuses BJP of ‘politicisation’ of judiciary

11:36 pm June 23, 2019

New Delhi: The Congress Sunday hit out at the BJP for “inaction” on the removal of Allahabad High Court’s Justice S N Shukla and “ignoring” collegium’s recommendation of elevating justice A A Kureshi as chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court, accusing the ruling party of indulging in “politicisation” of the judiciary. Months after an […]

HC directive to TN govt on traffic violations

11:03 pm June 12, 2019

Chennai: The Madras High Court Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to issue orders for empowering police officers above sub-inspector rank to impose spot fines and compound offences committed by motorists. A division bench comprising justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad issued the directive while hearing a petition filed by K K Rajendran, seeking to […]

AP HC gets two new judges

10:54 pm June 12, 2019

New Delhi: Two judges were Wednesday appointed to the Andhra Pradesh High Court, the Law Ministry has said. The notification said Cheekati Manavendranath Roy and Matam Venkata Ramana will be judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in that order of seniority. The AP High Court has an approved strength of 37 judges, but is […]