Judges
Madras High Court

Justice G.Arul Murugan

Madras High Court · 2024–2026
54 judgments in the LexStreak library · 54 with headnotes
2026:MHC:409005 Oct 2026
The Secretary to Government, Health Department v. Rihana
The Madras High Court, in a writ appeal by the State, set aside a Single Judge's award of Rs.3,00,000 and free education for a child born after a failed sterilisation, holding that a…
Writ / Public Law
2026:MHC:395628 Sept 2026
V.BABU v. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX
The Madras High Court dismissed an assessee's application to review its judgment in a tax case appeal, holding that documents available in public records are not new evidence for review and…
TaxationCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:390824 Sept 2026
K.SUTHAN v. The Union of India
The Madras High Court dismissed a public interest writ petition seeking an Election Expenditure Security and a five-year disqualification for MLAs who resign voluntarily, holding that a…
Constitutional Law
2026:MHC:389223 Sept 2026
Agri S.S.Krishnamurthy v. The Secretary
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed a challenge to the tribunal clause inserted during debate into the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly's Mekedatu Resolution, holding the…
Constitutional Law
2026:MHC:375811 Sept 2026
KURALARASAN v. STATE REP BY
The Madras High Court confirmed a conviction for aggravated penetrative sexual assault and kidnapping, holding that once the victim was established to be a minor the question of consent…
Criminal / BNS
2026:MHC:364508 Sept 2026
Chettinad Academy of Research and Education v. The State of Tamil Nadu
The Madras High Court held that the State Government's enquiry on an application for an Essentiality Certificate is confined to the parameters set out in Form 2 of the Establishment of…
Writ / Public Law
2026:MHC:360903 Sept 2026
M.K.Stalin v. The Election Commission of India & Ors.
The Madras High Court dismissed as not maintainable a writ petition challenging the post-result checking and verification of Electronic Voting Machines, holding that the reliefs claimed in…
Constitutional Law
CMA.SR106394/202620 Aug 2026
Bell Tower Enterprises LLP v. The Deputy Director, Directorate of Enforcement
The Madras High Court held that an appeal under Section 42 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 cannot be entertained beyond the outer limit of 120 days, and refused to exclude…
Criminal / BNS
2026:MHC:339920 Aug 2026
DP Jain Bangalore-Chennai Expressways Private Limited v. Union of India
Division Bench of the Madras High Court holds that the obligation on Thermal Power Plants to supply free fly ash with free transportation to National Highway concessionaires, cast by the…
Arbitration
2026:MHC:337317 Aug 2026
St.Josephs Development Trust v. Income Tax Officer
The Madras High Court dismissed a charitable trust's tax case appeal, holding that interest on its fixed deposits is not exempt under Section 11(1)(d) of the Income-tax Act without specific…
Taxation
2026:MHC:302123 Jul 2026
2026:MHC:3021
The Madras High Court dismissed a writ appeal seeking to invalidate a Transfer Certificate and compel re-admission of a minor into a school with which his father, a former teacher, was in…
Family / MatrimonialConstitutional Law
2026:MHC:302023 Jul 2026
State of Tamil Nadu v. M. Manickam
The Madras High Court dismissed writ appeals by the Special District Revenue Officer challenging a Single Judge order that struck down a 33.33% deduction of development charges from…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2026:MHC:300020 Jul 2026
The Government of Tamil Nadu v. D.Akshay Kumar
The Division Bench dismissed a writ appeal against a Single Judge's interim order directing acceptance of a job application, holding that the order was a routine, protective measure that…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026:MHC:163629 Apr 2026
Arappor Iyakkam v. The Director, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption
The Madras High Court transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation the investigation into alleged collusive bidding in the procurement of distribution transformers by TANGEDCO between…
Criminal / BNS
2026:MHC:178422 Apr 2026
The Managing Director v. R Mahendrakumar
Intra-court appeal against an order quashing proceedings that treated long-occupied Grama Natham land as Government poramboke. Following the Full Bench, the Court held that the Land…
Property / Land
WP.31973/202505 Mar 2026
PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETY v. The Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu
The Madras High Court dismissed a challenge to Sections 74 and 75(1) of the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Societies Act, 1983, holding that neither Article 43B nor Article 243ZI mandates complete…
Constitutional LawWrit / Public Law
2026:MHC:92505 Mar 2026
RELIANCE JIO INFOCOMM LTD v. UNION OF INDIA
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court, on a challenge to the validity of Rule 39(1)(a) of the CGST and State GST Rules, 2017, held that the rule is not ultra vires the enabling Act, but…
Taxation
2025:MHC:271427 Nov 2025
M/S. DEVARAJ & OTHERS v. THE INCOME TAX OFFICER
The Madras High Court held that the Appellate Tribunal's power under Section 254(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 is confined to rectifying a mistake apparent from the record and does not…
TaxationCivil Procedure / CPC
2025:MHC:271327 Nov 2025
SAKTHI SARAVANAN v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU
The Madras High Court held that "rash" and "negligent" in Sections 279 and 304-A IPC are disjunctive ingredients, that res ipsa loquitur has a limited role in inferring criminal negligence,…
Criminal / BNSMotor Accidents
2025:MHC:254607 Nov 2025
SATHISH KUMAR v. INSPECTOR OF POLICE
The Madras High Court set aside a conviction under the POCSO Act, holding that the victim had completed eighteen years on the date given in the complaint and that in any event the Act was…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025:MHC:234710 Oct 2025
M/s.Hinduja Foundries Ltd v. The Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax
The Madras High Court held that development charges paid to SIPCOT for infrastructure under a 99-year lease do not qualify for depreciation under Section 32(1)(ii), as the assessee owns no…
Taxation
2025:MHC:211529 Aug 2025
R.GANESAN v. MANIMEKALAI
The Madras High Court held that although res judicata cannot be decided on a petition to reject a plaint, re-litigation is an abuse of the process of the Court, and rejected a plaint filed…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2025:MHC:209121 Aug 2025
The Madurai kamaraj Universi v. T.Southamani
The Madras High Court allowed a University's writ appeals and set aside orders directing regularisation of consolidated pay employees appointed in 2008-2009, holding that they were back…
Service / Labour
2025:MHC:207120 Aug 2025
S.Ravi Selvan v. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
The Madras High Court, on an appeal against the dismissal of a challenge to proceedings before an Internal Complaints Committee, held that the three-month limitation in s.9(1) of the POSH…
Service / Labour
2025:MHC:209019 Aug 2025
Rama. Ravikumar v. The State of Tamil Nadu Rep
The Madras High Court quashed Government Orders permitting the construction of marriage halls out of temple funds, holding that a hall rented out on payment of a fee carries no element of…
Writ / Public Law
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