Justice Cyril Thamarai Selvam | |
|---|---|
| Justice, Madras High Court | |
| In office 31 Mar 2009 –Till Date [1] | |
| Additional Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court | |
| In office 23 June 2006 –31 Mar 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1957 |
| Spouse(s) | Helen |
Cyril Thamarai Selvam is a judge in Madras High Court.
Judge Selvam grants Douglas Devananda the privilege of facing the trial for murder charge through video conferencing from Colombo. Devananda is a proclaimed offender in India and is wanted on charges of murder, attempt to murder, rioting, unlawful assembly and kidnapping. [2]
In an interim order on the petition filed by news reader Mahalaxmi, Justice Selvam blocked the entire website www.savukku.net. This order on 28 Feb 2014 directly contradicts an earlier order by Madras High Court on 15 Apr 2012 against banning entire website instead of specific URLs. [3]
Earlier in Feb, savukku.net had exposed the tapes of conversations between DMK MP Kanimozhi and former Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Jaffer Sait, and Jaffer Sait and Kalaignar TV's former director Sharad Kumar and DMK President M Karunanidhi's Secretary K.Shanmuganathan and Jaffer Sait. [4]
Judge C T Selvam is considered to be close to Karunanidhi's family.
Justice CT Selvam became judge of the Madras High Court when Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2006 to 2011. A couple of hours before taking oath as judge Justice Selvam called on Karunanidhi and got his blessings and this was revealed through a government press release with photograph by the Tamil Nadu government's Information Department. [5]
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TANSI land acquisition case was a sensational case against J. Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, during 1991-96. Jaya Publication and Sasi Enterprises, the companies in which J. Jayalalithaa and her aide V. K. Sasikala had holdings, purchased lands of Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation (TANSI), a state government agency, in 1992. The case was filed by Subramanian Swamy and chargesheet were filed during the following DMK government headed by M. Karunanidhi in 1996. Jayalalitha and her aide, Sasikala were convicted in the lower court, which sentenced her to two year rigorous imprisonment and fined ₹50,000 on 9 October 2000. The case had political implications as Jayalalithaa was disqualified from contesting the 2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. Though Jayalalithaa's nomination papers were rejected, she took oath as chief minister after the victory of AIADMK in the elections. The Supreme Court disqualified her in September 2001, resulting in her stepping down and elevation of O. Panneerselvam as the chief minister. The governor of Tamil Nadu, Fathima Beevi, who administered oath to J. Jayalalithaa, was advised to step down by the union ministry, who also sent the report to the President of India.
The Pleasant Stay hotel case was a sensational case against Jayalalithaa, the late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, a state in South India during her tenure in 1991-96. Jayalalitha and her ministerial colleague, T. M. Selvaganapathy, were charged of misusing office to allow Pleasant Stay Hotel in Kodaikanal to build seven floors against the norms. The case and chargesheet were filed during the following DMK government headed by Karunanidhi in 1996. Jayalalitha and T. M. Selvaganapathy were convicted in the lower court, which sentenced her to one year imprisonment to the two and three others involved. The case had political implications as the aftermath violence created furore in the state. The statewide violence resulted in the burning of five buses, damaging fifty buses and leaving 40 people injured. Three girls students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University were burnt alive in a bus in Dharmapuri. The three AIADMK party workers were convicted in the case, received a death sentence in the case in 2007, but it was commuted to life imprisonment.
Kallakudi demonstration was organized by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on 15 July 1953 in Kallakudi in the erstwhile Tiruchirappalli district against naming the place as Dalmiapuram. Ramakrishna Dalmia, established a cement factory in Kallakudi and the place was renamed Dalmiapuram. DMK opposed the move as a suppression of South Indians by North India. It was the first notable demonstration by M Karunanidhi, the five time Chief minsiter of Tamil Nadu and his party, the DMK. The DMK party blocked passenger trains during the protest.
