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Chennai October 25 PTI The Madras High Court on Monday reserved orders on an appeal from Tamil actor Vijay who sought removal of adverse remarks in an order by a single judge in a matter related to his earlier plea seeking exemption from entry tax for an imported car A Division Bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and Mohammed Shaffiq reserved orders after listening to arguments advanced by Vijays senior counsel The counsel told the judges that the unwanted remarks made by Justice S M Subramaniam in July this year had hurt the sentiments of his client and lowered his image in the eyes of his fans and friends As directed by the single judge his client had remitted the remainder of entry tax of about Rs 32 lakh to the Commercial Tax Department in August Vijay alias C Joseph Vijay was also ready to donate money for any public purpose preferably to the Adyar Cancer Institute the senior advocate added and sought the court to expunge the unnecessary disparaging remarks made by the single judge against his client When the bench wondered as to whether the remarks of the single judge had not resulted in more popularity to the actor the senior counsel replied that it had in fact hurt his client Filing a petition challenging the demand for entry tax was not a sin The remarks had damaged his reputation and painted him as some sort of a criminal the counsel contended Vijay had imported a Rolls Royce Ghost car from United Kingdom in 2012 Justice Subramaniam had made certain observations vis-a-vis Vijay Among other things the judge had observed that reel heroes should be real heroes in real life After imposing a cost of Rs 1 lakh on him the judge had directed him to remit the remaining amount of 80 per cent of the entry tax PTI COR VGN VGN

Chennai Sep 28 PTI The Madras High Court has directed the Inspector General of Registration to instruct his subordinates to conduct inspections under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act and verify the genuinity of the registration and the activities carried on in the recreation clubs and societies and initiate appropriate action by following the procedures as contemplated under the provisions of the Act This exercise shall be done within 12 weeks If necessary a special team of officials are to be constituted to verify the registrations in respect of all these recreation Clubs and societies Justice S M Subramaniam said while disposing of a writ petition from a club in the city seeking to restrain the police from harassing its members As there were many police complaints alleging illegal activities against the club the judge rejected the plea and directed the police to go ahead with its probe After noticing that there were similar clubs and societies in the State indulging in unlawful activities the judge impleaded the Inspector General of Registration as a party in the case and issued a set of directions The judge said that while conducting inspections the jurisdictional authorities may collect further information from the jurisdictional police regarding registration of criminal cases if any Taking note of all these aspects appropriate actions are to be initiated for cancellation of registration if any illegality or irregularities are noticed The jurisdictional police authorities on registration of criminal cases against any such clubs and societies shall communicate the copy of the FIR to the jurisdictional district registrar of the said society for initiation of appropriate action under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act The DGP shall issue a circular directing the police authorities to communicate the copy of the FIR to the Registration department without causing any undue delay the judge added and posted the matter to October 22 for reporting compliance PTI CORR SA BN BN

Chennai Sep 22 PTI The Madras High Court has directed the Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment HRCE department to revise the rent from the lease holders of the properties of temples coming under its jurisdiction once in every three years and collect a fair rent Justice S M Subramaniam gave the direction recently while disposing of a batch of writ petitions from Kongu Vellalar Matric Higher Secondary School in Perundurai in Erode district and four otherschallenging the rents fixed by the Chellandiamman Temple on July 27 2018 The judge said that the HRCE Commissioner shall issue circulars to all his subordinate authorities to fix fair rents in respect of all the properties belonging to the religious institutions across the State strictly in accordance with the procedures as contemplated under Section 34-A of the HRCE Act He shall also ensure that fair rent fixationre-fixationenhancement as the case may be are being done once in three years in respect of all the properties of the religious institutions by following the procedures as contemplated under the section The judge was dismissing the petitions after giving liberty to the aggrieved petitioners to approach the appellate commissioner under sub-section 3 to Section 34-A of the Act This being the procedures contemplated the writ petitioners have approached this Court at the stage of demand notice Accordingly the writ petitions are not entertainable at this point of time the judge added and gave the directions PTI COR SA APR APR