Top Tamil Nadu news developments today
The Hindu
Here are the key news developments in Tamil Nadu to watch out for today
1. Rains lashes Chennai and surrounding areas
2. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to reply to the debate on demand for Grants for Home Department during Assembly proceedings today
3. BJP State president K. Annamalai in Madurai city, to address State EC meeting
4. Corporation council meeting to be held in Madurai
5. Madurai Bench of the High Court quashes FIR against two TANGEDCO employees from Virudhunagar district after compensation was paid to kin of two people who died due to electrocution. A case was booked against them after an electricity line over an agricultural land got severed.
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“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.