ADVOCATE R. KARUNANIDHI, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court

State to pay Rs. 10 lakh to mother of deceased sanitary worker According to the petitioner’s counsel R. Karunanithi, the sexagenarian’s son P. Arumugam, serving as a sanitary worker with Ramanathapuram Municipality, cleaned septic tanks in private buildings to earn an additional income. His wife was pregnant when he died. She gave birth to a baby girl after his death and left the child in petitioner’s custody before remarrying. When the aged petitioner was struggling to bring up the girl child, the Supreme Court on March 27, 2014 directed the Centre and State Governments to identify families of all those who died due to manual scavenging after the enactment of Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 and pay them a compensation of Rs.10 lakh each. Hence, Valaiyakka sent representations to the government officials and then filed a writ petition seeking compensation. Justice R. Mahadevan disposed of her peti...

                 மனிதக் கழிவுகளும் அதனை அகற்றும் மனிதர்களும்                            ARTICLE ON MANUAL SCAVENGERS IN TAMIL                                                                    -    ர. கருணாநிதி, வழக்கறிஞர்                                                       ...

  Necessity of Granting Emergency Leave to the Prisoners -        R. KARUNANIDHI, Advocate, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court       Referring to life in prison, Former Supreme Court Judge V.R.Krishna Iyer in Sunil Batra -Vs- Delhi Administration  (AIR 1980 SC 1579) , said “ Prisoners are peculiarly and doubly handicapped. For one thing, most prisoners belong to the weaker segment, in poverty, literacy, social station and the like. Secondly, the prison house is a walled-off world which is incommunicado for the human world, with the result that the bonded inmates are invisible, their voices inaudible, their injustices unheeded. So it is imperative, as implicit provided in Article 21 of the Constitution that life or liberty shall not be kept in suspended animation or congealed into animal existence without the freshing flow of air, procedure”. Further he describes that it is “something m...

  VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME – AN OUTLOOK         -   R. KARUNANIDHI   SCC PRACTICAL LAWYERS MEGAZINE PUBLISHED   (Advocate, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court)              SCC PRACTICAL LAWYERS MEGAZINE PUBLISHED INTRODUCTION               My endeavor in this article is to discuss about the contemporary events in the scheme of victim compensation. As many of us know the V ictim Compensation scheme was came into force when the Section 357 (A) of Criminal Procedure Code was amended in the year 2009. This was ensured as a law after various Supreme Court’s judgements in different cases where Supreme Court clarified that when victim suffer injuries, criminal injuries, they need to be compensated because it’s violation of Fundamental rights. The object and purpose of the provision is to enable the ...