Two persons have been arrested under the Goondas Act in connection with the murder of a man in Sirkazhi taluk of Mayiladuthurai district. According to the police, Rafiq, 50, a resident of Kovilpathu Main Road in Sirkazhi, was killed by his son Mohammed Yusuf, 22, along with his friends Subash, 22, and Mohammed Basith, 19. Given the severity of the …
YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar, alias A. Shankar’s mother A. Kamala has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Madras High Court challenging an order passed by the Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police on May 12 detaining her son under the Goondas Act, 1982. The petitioner had also filed another writ petition, seeking an inquiry by the National Human Rights Commission into …
The Tamil Nadu Forest department on Tuesday told the Madras High Court that a recommendation would be made to the Dharmapuri Collector to invoke the Goondas Act against a farmer who had put up an illegal electric fence around his land leading to the electrocution of two female elephants and one makhna on Monday. Additional Advocate General J. Ravindran made …
