Palaniappan Chidambaram,better known as P. Chidambaram,is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha. He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs from 2017 to 2018. He also served as Interim Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2022 to 2023 under Mallikarjun Kharge.
M. Fathima Beevi was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India. Appointed to the apex Court in 1989,she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme Court of India,and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in the country. On her retirement from the court,she served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission and later as the Governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu from 1997 to 2001. In 2023,she was honoured with Kerala Prabha Award,the second-highest honour given by the Government of Kerala. In the 2024 honours list,she was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,commonly known by its former name Madras Law College,is a law school,located in Chennai (Madras),Tamil Nadu,India. It is also referred to as Government Law College or GLC,Chennai. It was established in 1891. It was renamed in 1990,as Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College,by the Government of Tamil Nadu in commemoration of the birth centenary of B. R. Ambedkar. In 1997,the Government of Tamil Nadu passed an Act which brought the college under the wings of the newly established Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University,splitting the college from the University of Madras.
Sterlite Copper is a subsidiary of Sterlite industries,a company owned by Vedanta Limited.
Mylai Ponnuswamy Sivagnanam,popularly known as Ma.Po.Si.,was an Indian politician,freedom fighter,and the founder of the political party Tamil Arasu Kazhagam. He wrote more than 100 books.
Vaiyapuri Periyakaruppiah is a retired judge of the Madras High Court in India.
R. Banumathi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. She is from Tamil Nadu and the sixth woman to be a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Earlier,she served as the chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court and judge of the Madras High Court. She also served as the chancellor of Maharashtra National Law University,Aurangabad.
Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar is from Palliyadi,Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu,India and was the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He retired on 14 March 2017. He was appointed an additional judge of High Court of Madras in December 2005 and permanent judge on 20 April 2007. He took oath as the chief justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir in February 2015.
Ramalingam Sudhakar is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Manipur High Court. He is also former Acting Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Madras High Court. He was born on 14 February 1959 and hails from Panapakkam Village,Vellore District in Tamil Nadu. He was overlooked and V. Ramasubramanian was chosen over him as a Supreme Court Judge. The Central Government has approved the appointment of former Chief Justice of Manipur High Court,Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar as the president of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for a period of five years in October 28,2021. Justice Sudhakar has been appointed for a period of five years from the date of appointment or till he attains the age of 67 or until further orders,whichever is earlier.
Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh is the second seniormost Judge at the Madras High Court in India since April 2016. He briefly officiated as the Acting Chief Justice of the court from February 2017 till the appointment of Indira Banerjee as Chief Justice in April 2017. He was transferred to the High Court of Madhya Pradesh,Principal Seat at Jabalpur and assumed charge on 15.11.2018.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan is Former Judge of the Madras High Court. He was the third judge chosen to deliver the verdict in the Tamil Nadu MLA disqualification case.
Darmar Murugesan is a former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He has occupied many key posts in the Judiciary of India. He was elevated as a Judge of the Madras High Court from the Bar. He had formerly occupied the post of Member National Human Rights Commission of India.
Justice Ratnavel Pandian Subbiah is a sitting Judge of the Charted High Court of Madras. Subbiah is the Executive Chairman for the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority. He was elevated as a Judge of High Court of Madras on 24 March 2008.
The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Court located in Chennai,India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the oldest high courts of India along with Calcutta High Court in Kolkata and Bombay High Court in Mumbai. The Madras High Court is one of four charter high courts of colonial India established in the four Presidency Towns of Madras,Bombay,Allahabad and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria,dated 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai,as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction,civil and criminal,under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres,the court complex is one of the largest in the world,second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The four-storey administrative building attracts hundreds of litigants every day.
Honorable Thiru. C. V. Karthikeyan is a sitting Judge of the Madras High Court. He is one of the Members of the Board of Governors of the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy.
M. M. Sundresh is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He previously served as a judge of the Madras High Court.
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam was a former Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
G. R. Swaminathan is an Indian judge of the Madras High Court.
D. Krishnakumar is an Indian Judge. Presently,he is serving as the Chief Justice of Manipur High Court. He is a former Judge of Madras High Court.
