Justice S.M.Subramaniam

Tamil Nadu Sugar Mills Agricultural Graduate Association v. The Agricultural Production Commissioner and Secretary to Government

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed a writ appeal by an association of co-operative sugar mill employees, holding that Government Pay Commission benefits do not extend…

Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Coimbatore) Limited v. S. Syed Ibrahim

The Madras High Court allowed a Transport Corporation's writ appeal, holding that a workman who gave up the benefit of an order under the Conferment of Permanent Status Act by an…

The Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board v. G.S.Govindarajan

The Madras High Court allowed the TWAD Board's writ appeal and set aside an order granting Grade I technical pay to Nominal Muster Roll employees regularised under G.O.Ms.No.111 of 2006,…

K.Kasinathan v. Indian Bank

The Madras High Court held that a bank officer who resigned in 1995 after 17 years of service was eligible to join the 1995 Pension Scheme under Regulation 14 and Clause 37 of the 12th…

Union Christian Matriculation v. Meena Rathnasabapathy

A Division Bench allowed a school management's writ appeal, holding that a writ petition under Art.226 does not lie against a private matriculation school, that mere regulation of a private…

T.KAMARAJ v. The Registrar General

The Madras High Court set aside a punishment imposed on a Bench Clerk, holding that two domestic enquiries on the same charge memo are impermissible, that a disciplinary authority…

THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE v. A. SRIDHARAN

The Madras High Court allowed an intra-court appeal by the police department, holding that an acquittal on the benefit of doubt is no ground for exoneration in departmental disciplinary…

TMT.M.UMA MAHESWARI v. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL

The Madras High Court held that pensionary entitlement turns on the date of the appointment order issued by the appointing authority and not on an earlier administrative instruction, so…

The Director General of Police v. G. Aravindhan

The Madras High Court allowed an intra-court appeal and restored the punishment of removal from service, holding that a lenient view on misplaced sympathy in matters of discipline in a…

T.JOTHIMURUGAN v. THE GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

The Madras High Court upheld the validity of the Government Order fixing the ratio and rotation for promotion to engineering posts in the Tamil Nadu Municipal Service, holding that the…

CE.17 DHARAPURAM PUBLIC SERVANTS v. S.SUKUMAR

The Madras High Court held that the Registrar of Co-operative Societies may invoke Section 181 of the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Societies Act, 1983 to direct a suo motu revision under Section…

THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL (A AND E) v. S. THAMIZHARASI

The Madras High Court held that a second wife whose marriage was solemnised during the subsistence of the first is not a widow, and that Rule 49(7)(a)(i) of the Tamil Nadu Pension Rules,…

The Administrator v. V. Ganesan

The Madras High Court held that an order directing a statutory inquiry under Section 81 of the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Societies Act furnishes no cause of action for a writ petition, and…

The Principal Secretary to the Government, Health and Family Welfare Department v. R.Ravi

The Madras High Court allowed the State's writ appeals and set aside a direction to regularise Multi Purpose Hospital Workers engaged on contract under G.O.(Ms) No.325 of 2012, holding that…

GIC HOUSING FINANCE LTD v. POTU SRINIVAS

The Madras High Court allowed a writ appeal by a housing finance company and set aside an order reinstating its terminated Branch Head, holding that a private finance company is not a State…

Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Coimbatore v. R.Rajendran

The Madras High Court allowed writ appeals by a State Transport Corporation, holding that workmen who executed an undertaking giving up the benefit of an order under the Conferment of…

THE DIRECTOR GENERAL v. A. NAMBIRAJAN

The Madras High Court allowed writ appeals by the Railway Protection Force and set aside writ orders directing promotion on the strength of a 2016 panel of Head Constables, holding that…

The State of Tamil Nadu v. M.Narayannan

The Madras High Court held that the benefit under the Tamil Nadu Pension Rules, 1978 of counting 50% of temporary service as qualifying service is confined to a whole-time job and is not…

Government Of Tamil Nadu v. R.Muthusami

Allowing the State's intra-court appeal, the Madras High Court held that where a Steno-typist Grade-III is appointed as Assistant by transfer of service on exercising an option, seniority…

K. Karthikesan v. ICICI Bank Limited

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed two intra-court appeals by bank employees claiming pension, holding that a writ petition under Article 226 is not maintainable against a…

The Secretary to Government v. L. Mageswaran

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court set aside a writ order directing retrospective regularisation of a daily wage employee engaged on the Nominal Muster Roll, holding that…

3.S.Selvaraj 4.M.Govindarajulu 5.S.Girija 6.N.Subramani 7.A.Chandralega 8.Y.Devendiran v. 1.The State of Tamil Nadu Rep. By its Principal Secretary to Government Human Resources Development Department Fort St. George, Chennai – 600 009

The Madras High Court dismissed a writ appeal challenging a 2022 selection list for Block Educational Officers, holding that the appellants, who filed their writ petition years after the…

1.B.Unnamalai 2.V.Suganthi 3.K.Ramesh v. 1.The State of Tamil Nadu Rep. By its Principal Secretary to Government Human Resources Development Department Fort St. George, Chennai – 600 009

The Madras High Court dismissed a Writ Appeal challenging a teachers' recruitment selection list, holding that the challenge was barred by delay and laches since it was filed years after…

S.Theerthagiri v. C.Muthukumaran

Where the tainted candidates in a competitive examination can be identified, only they are debarred and the whole selection need not be cancelled. The Madras High Court left the Health…

The Divisional Personnel Officer, Southern Railway, Salem v. The Registrar, Central Administrative Tribunal, Chennai

The three financial upgradations under the MACP Scheme run from the direct entry grade on 10, 20 and 30 years of service, and the clause ignoring earlier promotions applies only to pay…