{"id":333580,"date":"2024-03-09T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=333580"},"modified":"2024-03-09T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:20:09","slug":"madras-high-court-march-6-udhayanidhi-stalin-sanatana-dharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/madras-high-court-march-6-udhayanidhi-stalin-sanatana-dharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras High Court makes changes in March 6 judgment involving Udhayanidhi Stalin&#8217;s comments against Sanatana Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Madras High Court has changed a part of its March 6 judgement delivered on a petition seeking removal of Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for his comments on the Sanatana Dharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order passed by the single-judge Bench of Justice Anita Sumanth on Wednesday, contained some controversial comments. It said, &#8220;However, the origins of the caste system as we know it today are less than a century old.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An updated version of this verdict was later uploaded on the High Court&#8217;s website after March 6, omitting the above line and replacing it with a new text, which said, &#8220;However, the categorization of castes as we know them today, is a far more recent and modern phenomenon&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earlier version further said that Tamil Nadu had 370 registered castes, while commenting on &#8220;pills and pressures&#8221; between different caste groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest version of the verdict said that Tamil Nadu has 184 registered castes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court has changed a part of its March 6 judgement delivered on a petition seeking removal of Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for his comments on the Sanatana Dharma. The order passed by the single-judge Bench of Justice Anita Sumanth on Wednesday, contained some controversial comments. It said, &#8220;However, the origins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":333582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,59609],"tags":[632,131010,107055,127987],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2024\/03\/09144951\/Madras-High-Court-2-2-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}