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The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has reserved orders on a petition seeking guidelines to deal with children of parents who are prisoners and children who are victim of violence. A division bench of justice S Vimala and justice T Krishnavalli had earlier directed an amicus curae to file a report on the issue and directed the report be sent to the additional director general of police, prisons and central prisons across the state for consideration.

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A Division Bench of Justices S.Vimala and T. Krishnavalli of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved for pronouncing
orders the case pertaining to the cause of rehabilitation of prisoners children in cases where one spouse killed the other. The court constituted a panel and appointed amicus curiae in the case to study and suggest measures for the rehabilitation of such children.

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சர்வதேச மனித உரிமைகள் தினம். தூத்துக்குடி  அன்னம்மாள் மகளிர் கல்வியியல் கல்லூரியில் சர்வதேச மனித உரிமைகள் தினம் கடைபிடிக்கப்பட்டது 

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Award for Henri Tiphagne. Henri Tiphagne, founder and executive director of Madurai-based human rights organisation People’s Watch, has been selected for the Nani A. Palkhiwala Award for Civil Liberties this year under the individuals category.

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Her family denied compensation under the Employees State Insurance. R Kamatchi, 35, died in a fateful industrial accident in a spinning mill in Rajapalayam taluk of Virudhunagar district in 2012. Her death has been covered up and turned into a natural death by her employer. Her family was denied due compensation under the Employees State Insurance (ESI) to which Kamatchi was subscribing. Her death was not even reported to the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health (DISH).

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தமிழிசை மீது வன்கொடுமை தடுப்புச் சட்டத்தில் வழக்குப் பதிவு ஹென்றி திபேன் வலியுறுத்தல்




The body of C. Kamaraj, the woodcutter who was reportedly killed in an encounter by the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department officials in Kadapa district early this month on suspicion of being a red sanders smuggler, was tied to poles and carried for five kilometres to his house in  Jawadu Hills, here on Tuesday morning.

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