Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 184 To 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 191NOMINAL INDEXPuducherry Body Builders & Fitness Association v. The Government of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 184Play Games 24x7 Private Limited And Anr Vs State Of Tamil Nadu And Ors & Connected Matters, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 185Paraman vs. State, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 186V Gopi v The State and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 187MA...
Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 184 To 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 191
NOMINAL INDEX
Puducherry Body Builders & Fitness Association v. The Government of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 184
Play Games 24x7 Private Limited And Anr Vs State Of Tamil Nadu And Ors & Connected Matters, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 185
Paraman vs. State, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 186
V Gopi v The State and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 187
MA v Superintendent of Police, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 188
V Balakrishnan v. The General Manager (T) and others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 189
K Kannan v. The Managing Director and Others, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 190
S. Sai Priya and others v. Union of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 191
REPORT
Case Title: Puducherry Body Builders & Fitness Association v. The Government of India
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 184
The Madras High Court has recently observed that conferring pageant titles such as “Mr. India”, would not be violative of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act 1950.
Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy said that conferring such title to the winner of a body building competition would not in any manner mean that it is a use of the national emblem or the name of the country for trade, business etc and is merely used to refer to the title winner. Noting that the sport is only aimed at encouraging physical health, the court found no violation of the law.
Madras High Court Upholds Night Ban, Mandatory KYC For Online Real Money Games
Case title: Play Games 24x7 Private Limited And Anr Vs State Of Tamil Nadu And Ors & Connected Matters
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 185
The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the regulations brought in by the Tamil Nadu government imposing a night ban and mandating Aadhar-based KYC verification for playing online real money games.
The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice K Rajasekar dismissed the petitions filed by a group of online gaming companies and players. The bench said that apart from a paternalistic point, the State had gone one step further to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, which was a reasonable restriction.
Though the companies had argued on the aspect of Right to privacy, the court has rejected the arguments and said that the Right to privacy comes with it its own restriction.
Case title: Paraman vs. State
Citation : 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 186
In an extraordinary ruling, the Madras High Court recently upheld the conviction of a man found guilty of raping a woman under coercion, while directing the prison authorities to extract labour from the appellant-convict during his jail term.
The Court further ordered that the wages earned by him be equally distributed between the child born through the victim (rape survivor) and another child born through his wife.
In its order, a bench of Justice KK Ramakrishnan observed that the Court was compelled to grant this extraordinary relief "with a heavy heart," in an attempt to "wipe out the tears" of the victim and the innocent children affected by the crime.
Chennai Honour Killing Case: Madras High Court Rejects Plea For CBI Probe
Case Title: V Gopi v The State and Others
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 187
The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea seeking CBI probe into the alleged honour killing of a man in Chennai in 2024.
Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan dismissed the plea filed by V Gopi, father of the deceased Praveen. The court thus refused to transfer the pending investigation to the CBI.
Praveen was allegedly killed by his wife's family members who were unhappy with the marriage. Praveen belonged to the Scheduled Caste (SC) Adi Dravidar community while his wife belonged to the Most Backward Class (MBC) community.
Gopi contended that on February 24, 2024, his son was forcefully taken to a parking lot in Pallikaranai where the accused came with deadly weapons, assaulted and slaughtered Praveen who subsequently died. In his plea for CBI probe, Gopi submitted that the girl's family had conspired to murder his son with the help of his friends and relatives. It was submitted that the girl's father was a functionary of the ruling DMK party and was engaged in political and other communal activities.
Case Title: MA v Superintendent of Police
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 188
The Madras High Court recently observed that the concept of “family” has to be understood expansively and marriage is not the sole mode to start a family.
The bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayan observed that while the judgment of the Supreme Court in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty Vs Union of India might not have legalised same sex marriage, such couples could very well form a family.
The bench also expressed discomfort in associating the word “queer” with homosexual persons. The court said that the sexual orientation of a homosexual person must be perfectly normal for him/her/them and wondered why it should be associated with the word “queer” which, by definition, meant “strange or odd”.
NHAI Can't Collect Toll From Users Without Maintaining Highway Properly: Madras High Court
Case Title: V Balakrishnan v. The General Manager (T) and others
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 189
In a solace for road users, the Madras High Court has underscored that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has an obligation to maintain highways properly pursuant to which they can collect toll fee on such users.
The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice AD Maria Clete thus halted the collection of toll in the Madurai-Tuticorin highway, till the roads are properly maintained by the authority as per the standards prescribed under the National Highways Authority of India Act.
Case Title: K Kannan v. The Managing Director and Others
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 190
Ordering the closure of a TASMAC shop situated on a public road, the Madras High Court recently observed that a welfare government should strive to enforce prohibition rather than establishing more TASMAC shops, which affects the public health.
The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice AD Maria Clete added that it was contradictory for a welfare state to establish more hospitals on the one hand and simultaneously establish TASMAC shops on the other. The court also added that when right to health was a fundamental right, the State should ensure that prohibition is implemented slowly to reduce the harm to public health.
Case Title: S. Sai Priya and others v. Union of India
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Mad) 191
The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition filled by students seeking re-examination of NEET UG examinations
Justice C Kumarappan dismissed the petition after taking note of the report filed by the National Testing Agency. The court added that unless malafide was shown in NTA's report, allowing a plea for re-examination would affect the level playing field of around 2 million students who wrote the exam all over India.
The court considered the report filed by NTA after a field verification conducted by the Centre Superintendent, City Coordinator, NTA-appointed Observers and Invigilators on duty in the examination halls.
Finding no malafide in the report, the court rejected the plea for re-examination and dismissed the petition.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Case Title: Vetri Maaran v. The Chairman, CBFC and Another
Case No: WP 18036 of 2025
The Madras High Court, on Wednesday, criticized the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for denying certificate to upcoming Tamil movie "Manushi" without specifying the scenes to which it has objections.
Noting that movie making was a part of right to free speech and expression, Justice Anand Venkatesh said that the Board would be putting the producers of the movie in great difficulty by not specifying the scenes to which it has objections.
The court thus asked the Board to list out the objectionable scenes or in the alternative, to sit and watch the movie with its producers and point out the objectionable scenes. The Court asked the counsel for CBFC to take instructions and adjourned the case by a week.