Madras HC bans political meetings and rallies across cities in TN
(WorldNews India)

MADURAI: In a ruling that may have huge implications in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, the Madras high court on Friday banned all political meetings and rallies near streetcorners/junctions, thoroughfares and in residential neighbourhoods, saying such events could only be allowed outside urban areas. `Since people´s life is affected and their free movement is crippled and even children and old people are affected because of the conduct of the meetings and rallies on street corners, at roads, thoroughfares and near residential areas, there shall be a direction to authorities not to permit political parties to conduct meetings and rallies in street corners, roads, thoroughfares and near residential...