Madras High Court dismisses plea against removal of caste-based place names

…of Hindu Advocates Front, said the G.O. issued guidelines for identifying and renaming roads, streets, residential areas, bus stands, markets, waterbodies, and village panchayats that had caste-based names. There had been no complaint about caste abuse by quoting the name of a street, road or waterbody all these years. He said though Annexure-IA had been captioned ‘Sample list of names’, the list diligently excluded great patriots from Tamil Nadu who had sacrificed their lives and wealth during the freedom struggle. The names of…

…government departments, public sector undertakings, government educational institutions, allied establishments and special guidelines for private institutions considering the welfare of women. The petitioner said the absence of a menstrual leave policy results in indirect discrimination against women employees, thereby violating Article 14 of the Constitution , as women alone bear the burden of a recurring biological condition and were compelled either to suffer wage loss or to work through debilitating pain, unlike their male counterparts. She said the existing leave…