Cyril Thamarai Selvam is a judge in Madras High Court.
Justice Cyril Thamarai Selvam | |
|---|---|
| Justice, Madras High Court | |
| In office 31 Mar 2009 – Till Date [1] | |
| Additional Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court | |
| In office 23 June 2006 – 31 Mar 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1957 |
| Spouse | Helen |
Career
editSelvam became judge of the Madras High Court when Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2006 to 2011. A couple of hours before taking oath as judge, Selvam called on Karunanidhi and got his blessings and this was revealed through a government press release with photograph by the Tamil Nadu government's Information Department.[2]
In an interim order on the petition filed by news reader Mahalaxmi, Justice Selvam blocked the entire website www.savukku.net. This order on 28 Feb 2014 directly contradicts an earlier order by Madras High Court on 15 Apr 2012 against banning entire website instead of specific URLs.[3]
Earlier in Feb, savukku.net had exposed the tapes of conversations between DMK MP Kanimozhi and former Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Jaffer Sait, and Jaffer Sait and Kalaignar TV's former director Sharad Kumar and DMK President M Karunanidhi's Secretary K.Shanmuganathan and Jaffer Sait.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Madras High Court Judge". Madras High Court. Archived from the original on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ^ "Madras High court orders to shut down website that exposed 2G tapes", R Ramasubramanian, India Today, 28 February 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "No More John Doe Orders? Indian ISPs Get Court Order For Specificity In URL Blocks", Nikhil Pahwa, MediaNama, 20 June 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "Madras High court orders to shut down website that exposed 2G tapes", R Ramasubramanian, India Today, 28 February 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.