T. S. Sivagnanam

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T. S. Sivagnanam (born 16 September 1963) is an Indian Judge. Presently, he is a Judge of Calcutta High Court. He is former Judge of Madras High Court.^[1][2]

Early life[]

Dr. T. S. Subbiah and Mrs. Nalini Subbiah are the parents of Justice T. S. Sivagnananm. He was born on 16.09.1963. Justice Sivagnanam had Completed his B.Sc. Degree graduation at Loyola College, Chennai and he obtained his B.L. Degree from Madras Law College and enrolled in the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu on 10.9.1986.

As an advocate[]

After enrollment, Justice Sivagnananm joined the chamber of Shri.R.Gandhi, Senior Advocate. Justice Sivagnanam was Appointed as Additional Central Government Standing Counsel during 2000.^[3]

As judge of high court[]

Justice Sivagnanam was appointed as Additional Judge, of the High Court of Madras on 31.03.2009 and later he was appointed as Permanent Judge on 29.03.2011. He is the Chairman for the Computer Committee of the High Court of Madras.^[4] He was transferred as a Judge of Calcutta High Court and took oath on 25 October 2021.

TNSJA[]

Justice T. S. Sivagnanam is one of the Members of the Board of Governors of the T. N. S. J. A (Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy)^[5]

Virtual hearings[]

During the COVID - 19 Pandamic, the Computer Committee of the High Court of Madras, headed by Justice T.S. Sivagnanam had decided to purchase 100 Licences of "MicrosoftTeam" for conducting Virtual Hearing of the Cases by all Judicial Officers in the State of Tamil Nadu.^[6]

Electronic processes[]

Another important step taken by the Computer Committee of the High Court of Madras, headed by Justice T. S. Sivagnanam, was to introduce NSTEP (National Service and Tracking of Electronic Process). By purchasing 1200 Smart Phones for the Process Servers, the Service of the Court Processes was made easy, simple within a short span of time.

Important Cases[]

Mines case[]

In an Important case, Justices T S Sivagnanam and G Jayachandran passed an order of winding up the commission headed by IAS officer U Sagayam. This case was related to the Issue relating to the appointment of former Madurai District Collector Sagayam as Special Officer/Legal Commissioner to conduct probe into all granite mining contracts and licences given to various private companies in Tamil Nadu.^[7][8]

Sterlite Plant Case

Justices T S Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan in an judgement dismissed a batch of 10 petitions filed by Vedanta on behalf of the Sterlite Copper Plant at Thoothukudi.^[9]

Income Tax Notice case

Justice T S Sivagnanam had allowed writ petitions filed by the former Finance Minister of India Mr. Chidambaram and his family members, challenging the demand notices saying there was reason to believe that income chargeable to tax had escaped assessment. Mr. Chithambaram submitted that he and his family grow coffee and after pulping and drying, sell the raw coffee. Proceeds of its sale are agricultural income exempted from the applicability of Section 10(1) of the Income Tax Act.^[10]

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