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The Deputy Inspector General of Police and anr. Vs. S. Samuthiram.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... eve-teasing led to the death of a woman in the year 1998 in the state of tamil nadu which led the government bringing an ordinance, namely, the tami nadu prohibition of eve-teasing ordinance, 1998, which later became an act, namely, the tamil nadu prohibition of eve-teasing act, 1998 [for short 'the eve-teasing act'] ..... 625/1999 under section 509 ipc and section 4 of the tamil nadu prohibition of eve-teasing ordinance act, 1998 andiii) highly reprehensible conduct in having absented from duty from 10.7.1999 at 07.00 hrs onward till 03.45 hrs.14 ..... accordingly, the tamil nadu prohibition of eve-teasing ordinance, 1998 (tamil nadu ordinance ..... this in view, the government decided to prohibit eve-teasing in the state of tamil nadu.2. ..... /1999 under section 509 ipc and section 4 of the eve-teasing act, 1998, which was registered as stc 613 of 2002 before the judicial magistrate, tenkasi. ..... the necessity of a proper legislation to curb eve-teasing is of extreme importance, even the tamil nadu legislation has no teeth ..... it was under such circumstances that the criminal court took the view that there is no evidence to implicate the respondent-accused, consequently, he was found not guilty under section 509 ipc read with section 4 of the eve-teasing act and was, therefore, acquitted.16 ..... eve-teasing is a euphemism, a conduct which attracts penal action but it is seen, only in one state, a statute has been enacted, that is state of tamil nadu to contain the same, the consequence of which may at times .....

Dr.K.Vasudevan, Principal Vs. the Child Welfare Committee

Court : Chennai

..... during the pendency of the writ petition, the second respondent had been arrested, based on the first information report registered, in crime no.797 of 2011, under section 4 of the tamil nadu prohibition of harassment of women act, 1998, read with section 506(1) of the indian penal code, based on the complaint lodged by the father of the girl ..... on the recommendation of the disciplinary committee, the management of the petitioner school had decided to expel the second respondent, exercising the power conferred on it under the tamil nadu education ..... care of or whose parents have abandoned him or who is missing and run away child and whose parents cannot be found after reasonable inquiry,(vi) who is being or is likely to be grossly abused, tortured or exploited for the purpose of sexual abuse or illegal acts,(vii) who is found vulnerable and is likely to be inducted into drug abuse or trafficking,(viii) who is being or is likely to be abused for unconscionable gains,(ix) who is victim of any armed conflict, civil commotion ..... on 9.4.2011, the petitioner had received a complaint from a girl student namely, sandhya and her father sairam, alleging that the second respondent had been indulging in eve-teasing and had opened a facebook account in her name and had been using vulgar and filthy language, creating a negative ..... complaints against the second respondent stating that he had been making lewd comments and he has been using vulgar language, while teasing some girls students in the school. .....

Date of Decision: April 2, 2013 Vs. State of Punjab and Others

Court : Punjab and Haryana

..... vii)states of punjab and haryana may also consider legislating on the issue of eve-teasing on the pattern of prohibition of eve-teasing act, 1998 in the state of tamil naidu wherein eve-teasing is a non-bailable offence with maximum punishment of rigorous imprisonment upto ten years and a fine of `50,000/-. ..... decided on 30.11.2012 was seized of an appeal filed by a member of the law enforcing agency who had been caught in the act of eve-teasing which, in turn, led to criminal and disciplinary proceedings culminating in the imposition of the extreme penalty of dismissal from service. ..... 4) where any incident of eve-teasing is committed in a public service vehicle either by the passengers or the persons in charge of the vehicle, the crew of such vehicle shall, on a complaint made by the aggrieved person, take such vehicle to the nearest police station and give information to the police. ..... such officer would assist the director general of police in monitoring and supervising the cases of any crime against women including eve-teasing from the stage of registration of the case to the culmination of the trial. ..... a common thread that runs through all these petitions that had been entertained in public interest, is the focus on the burning issue of crime against women, be it in the form of rape, eve-teasing, sexual harassment, acid attacks etc. .....

Suber and Others Vs. The Inspector of Police, Madurai

Court : Chennai Madurai

..... it is seen that the petitioners are accused in c.c.no.38 of 2010 on the file of the learned judicial magistrate, melur, for the offence under section 506 (ii) ipc r/w eve teasing act and section 4 of tamil nadu prohibition of women harassment act. ..... under such circumstances, learned judicial magistrate, melur is directed to complete the trial in c.c.no.38 of 2010 within three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, provided the accused co-operate in the conduct of the trial by cross examining witnesses without unnecessary adjournments. ..... under section 154 of the evidence act, as amended recently, the evidence of hostile witnesses cannot be ignored and those portions of evidence, which are in support of the prosecution case can be relied upon by the court to convict the accused. ..... state of punjab reported in 2015 (1) scale 542, the supreme court has categorically stated that witnesses should be cross examined on the date they are examined in chief, because there are every possibilities of the accused tampering with the witnesses and making them turn hostile. ..... in fact, the supreme court in the said judgment relied upon the chief examination of a witness, who in his cross examination after some days, did not support the prosecution, to convict the accused. ..... learned government advocate (crl.side), on instructions submitted that the prosecution has examined two more witnesses and thus, totally four witnesses have been examined. 5. .....

Ms. A. Arulmozhi Vs. the Govt. of India and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (2005)3MLJ497

..... on noticing that the prohibited scenes were shown in television channels through the cable service, the board wrote a letter to the home secretary, government of tamil nadu, for taking action against the producer under the cable television networks (regulation act, 1995, but, no action was taken.43. ..... on going through the entire records, we are amazed to notice the details of several shocking events, which could be given in brief as under, in chronological order :(i) the regional officer, central board of film certification, chennai, received various complaints from several women associations, requesting to take action against the tamil films, since the words used in lyrics are quite bad in taste and commonly misused for eve-teasing the girls and the same are shown indiscriminately in television channels during the prime time. ..... (13) though the cable television networks (regulation) act and the tamil nadu (compulsory censorship of film publicity materials) act 25 of 1987 have come into force, as complained by the censor board itself, the implementation of those acts by the state government is not effective; with the result, uncensored vulgar scenes are displayed in the advertisements and the adult rated films are being shown to the children in television channels. .....

Ruby Recreation Club Vs. Secretary to Government

Court : Chennai

..... the clubs have to obtain a license as per section 17-c of the tamil nadu prohibition act, 1937 (hereinafter referred to as 'the act'), in order to possess and supply the indian made foreign spirits and foreign liquor to foreign tourists, foreignerresident in india and citizens of india for consumption within the licensed premises of the petitioners' club. ..... gandhi jayanthi day fl 3 a license for possession of liquor by hotels run by the franchisee of the ttdc thiruvalluvar day gandhi jayanthi day birthday eve of nabigal nayagam mahavir jayanthi and vallalar ninaivu naal fl 4 license for possession of liquor by manager, canteen stores department nil fl 4 a license for possession of sale of liquor by military units & military personnel nil fl 5 license for possession and issue of liquor by the madras seamen's institute nil fl 6 license for possession and use of liquor for ..... birthday eve of nabigal nayagam, in every year the statute mandates that the fl-2 licensee should close the licensed premises on the above said days.6. ..... 2 licences on the thiruvalluvar day falling on the month of january, gandhi jayanthi day, namely, the 2nd october and birth day eve of nabigal nayagam, in every year. " 14. ..... of fl.2 licence, only three days, namely thiruvalluvar day, gandhi jayanthi day and nabigal nayagam birthday eve of every year were followed by the fl 2 licensees. ..... birth day eve of nabigal nayagam 4. ..... birth day eve of nabigal nayagam 4. .....

M. Muthuramalingam and Etc. Etc. Vs. District Forest Officer and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : 2002CriLJ420

..... in reply to the above submissions, the learned government advocate, on the strength of the counter filed by the respondents, submitted that the compounding fees collected from the petitioners were only on their voluntary confession and the same had been done in compliance with the procedures as contemplated under the tamil nadu forest act and the wild life protection act and as such, the proceedings cannot be said to be illegal ..... a last ground, it is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the search and the seizure were illegal, in view of the fact that there are no materials to show that the petitioners have committed any offence either under the tamil nadu forest act or under the wild life protection act.32. ..... is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioners that compounding fees could be levied by the deputy conservator of forest under section 54 of the wild life protection act and under section 55 of the tamil nadu forest act only to the tune of rs. ..... though the petitioners have filed separate petitions, the grounds raised are common, which are as follows :--(i) either under section 54 of the wild life protection act or under section 55 of the tamil nadu forest act, the compounding fees that could be collected should be to the extent of ..... 9 of the wild life protection act would provide for prohibition of hunting. ..... all the three petitioners on 11-8-1999 on the eve of 'solar eclipse', started from kodaikanal in a mahindra jeep for taking bath at 'kumbakarai .....

Bader Sayeed Vs. the Southern India Education Trust and Others

Court : Chennai

..... committee also considered that the state of tamil nadu had enacted the tamil nadu prohibition (of harassment of women) act, 1988 and that act only has to be followed since in the visaka case reported in (1997) 6 scc 241, in para 18 of the judgment, the supreme court had stated that the directions given therein would be binding and enforceable in laws until suitable legislation is enacted to occupy the field ..... . a combined reading of the guidelines and the statutory provisions under the tamil nadu act to prohibit (harassment of women) 1998, makes it clear that there should be a victim or an aggrieved person, of sexual ..... . now the government of tamil nadu have enacted the tamilnadu prohibition of harassment of women act, 1998, dealing with sexual ..... in the above said judgment, this court held that, merely because the college committee was constituted by reason of the provision under section 11 of the tamil nadu private colleges (regulation) act and in the manner provided by rule 8 of the rules framed under section 53 of the act would not mean that it was an instrumentality or agency of the government, so as to be called an 'authority' within the meaning of the ..... dated 6.1.2010 replied, stating that such "informal consultations" and lobbying on the eve of an appointment to the post of secretary, as suggested by the petitioner's brother, is against the bye-laws of the 1st respondent-trust and that appointment to the post of secretary must be done in a truly democratic manner. .....

R. Sivashanmugam and ors. Vs. the State of Tamil Nadu Rep. by the Secr ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (2009)6MLJ289

..... , but subject to the provisions of section 21-a of the principal act, any proceeding taken or order passed under the principal act which has been disposed of before the date of the publication of this act in the tamil nadu government gazette, contrary to the provisions of section 22 of the principal act, as amended by section 4 of this act, shall be reopened and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of section 22 of the principal act as so amended:provided that no such proceeding or order shall be reopened under this section after the expiry of a period of five years from the date of the publication of this act in the tamil nadu government gazette ..... there the supreme court held that the act will not have any retrospective operation and will not apply to pending suits already filed and entertained prior to the coming into force of section 4 of the benami transactions (prohibition) act. ..... but why sell only on the eve of land legislation? .....

Matter Taken Up as Suomoto on the News Item Published in Deccan Chroni ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 1998(1)ALD270; 1997(6)ALT706

..... apart from what is included in the bill introduced in andhra pradesh legislative assembly, the ordinance of tamil nadu also provides for immediate suspension of the student from the educational institution, who is alleged to have committed the offence under the said ordinance and the decision of the head of the educational institution or the person responsible for the management of the institution, under sub-section (1) of section 6of the said ordinance is to be treated ..... indian penal code deals with criminal intimidation in the following terms :'whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or to the reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do as the means of avoiding the execution of such threats, commits criminal intimidation.'23. ..... the statement of objects and reasons, it is envisaged that the practice of ragging by old students on new entrants had become very common in colleges, hostels attached to it and other places of public resort and there had been several instances of brilliant students committing suicides unable to bear insults by old students and to prohibit such ..... section 2 of the bill defines 'ragging' as including 'decking', teasing by which any person is insulted and put to mental agony by anything done against his/her .....