NO. 199/2025 MADRAS HIGH COURT SITTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR DUSSEHRA HOLIDAYS-2025 PRINCIPAL SEAT AT MADRAS AND MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT AT MADURAI It is hereby notified that the following sitting arrangements are made for Dussehra Holidays-2025, i.e., from 27.()9.2()25 (Saturday)

R.O.C.N0.84270-A/2025/C3

NOTIFICATION NO. 199/2025 MADRAS HIGH COURT
SITTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR DUSSEHRA HOLIDAYS-2025 PRINCIPAL SEAT AT MADRAS AND
MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT AT MADURAI
It is hereby notified that the following sitting arrangements are made for Dussehra Holidays-2025, i.e., from 27.()9.2()25 (Saturday) to 05.10.2025
(Sunday) for the Madras High Court (both Principal Seat and Madurai Bench):-
l . The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice P. Velmurugan, The I-Ion’ble Thiru. Justice.
P.B. Balaji, The Hon’ ble Thiru.Justice V.Lakshminarayanan, The
Hon’ ble Thiru. Justice N. Senthilkumar and The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice
G.Arul Murugan will sit at Principal Seat at Madras as Vacation Judges on
03.10.2025 (Friday), to dispose of urgent matters.
2. The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice M. Dhandapani, The Hon’ble
Thiru.Justice P. Dhanabal and The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice
M.Jothiraman will sit at Madurai Bench of Madras High Court at Madurai as Vacation Judges on 03.10.2025 (Friday), to dispose of urgent matters.
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3. Their Lordships will sit to dispose of the urgent matters as follows:-
PRINCIPAL SEAT
SL.

HON’BLE JUDGES NO.
I The Hon’ble Thiru.
Justice P. Velmurugan and
The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice G. Arul Murugan
2 The Hon’ble Thiru. Justice V. Lakshminarayanan
3 The Hon’ble Thiru.
Justice P.B. Balaji
4 The Hon ‘ble Thiru.
Justice N. Senthilkumar

SUBJECT
All Division Bench Matters.
All Single Bench Appellate Side and Original Side matters.
All Single Bench Writ Petitions.
All Single Bench Criminal Side matters.
MADURAI BENCH

SL.NO. HON’BLE JUDGES The Hon’ble Thiru.
Justice M. Dhandapani and
The Hon’ble Thiru.
Justice M. Jothiraman IA The Hon’ble Thiru.

Justice M. I)handapani
1B The Hon’ble Thiru.

Justice M. Jothiraman

2 The Hon’ble Thiru.
Justice P. Dhanabal SUBJECT
All Division Bench Matters.
After Division Bench Work All Single Bench Writ petitions.
After Division Bench Work All Single Bench Criminal Side matters. All Single Bench Appellate Side matters.
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The following Officers are nominated as Vacation Officers for the Principal Seat at Madras and Madurai Bench of Madras High Court at Madurai .
SL.
No. PRINCIPAL SEAT MADURAI BENCH
I Thiru.S.Purushothaman, Tmt.J.Angeline Thelma Chitra,
Deputy Registrar (Special Cell Conference) C.J. Joint Registrar (Computer)
2 Thiru.C.Muralidharan, Tmt.A.Latha,
Assistant Registrar (Computer) Assistant Registrar (Writs)
3 Tmt.A.Selvi, Thiru.R.Suresh Babu,
Assistant Registrar (Per.Admn.) Assistant Registrar (A.E.)
4 Thiru. K.Chandramohan, Thiru.V.S.Arul Rajan,
Sub Assistant Registrar (A.S.-II) Sub-Assistant Registrar (Liaisoning)
5 Thiru. N.Sivakumar, Thiru.K.S.Munusamy,
Sub Assistant Registrar (Writs-I) Sub-Assistant Registrar (A.E.)
6 Thiru. D.Pint0, Thiru.S.Senthil Kumar,
Sub Assistant Registrar (Vigilance) Sub-Assistant Registrar (C.S.-I)
The aforesaid Officers are hereby instructed to act as Vacation Officers from 27.09.2025 (Saturday) to 05.10.2025 (Sunday) (inclusive of holidays).
Sitting of the Vacation Court will be from 10.30 a.m. to 4.45 p.m. on
03.10.2025 (Friday) in the Madras High Court (both Principal Seat and Madurai Bench).
The method of hearing of cases being followed now in the Madras High Court (both Principal Seat and Madurai Bench) will be applicable for the Dussehra Holidays Sitting — 2025.
Notice of any application of urgent matters alone should be presented along with the papers to the Vacation Officers on 30.09.2025 (Tuesday) from
10.30 a.m. to 01.30 p.m. in the Madras High Court (both Principal Seat and Madurai Bench) by following the present system of filing of case papers, copy applications, returning / re-presenting the case papers and receiving the order copies.
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The e-mail id of the Vacation Officers is as follows:-
a) Principal Seat: masbenchvacl@,gmail.com
b) Madurai Bench: mdubenchvacl@gmail.com
No application should be presented at the residence of the Hon’ble Vacation Judges under any circumstances and no lunch motion will be entertained during Dussehra Holidays – 2025.
For the bail petitions, Lower Court bail order should be enclosed along with the petitions.
The Petitions which are filed online between 10.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on
30.09.2025 (Tuesday) alone will be entertained.

Motion Slip’ should be presented before the Vacation Officers stating the urgency of the matter and also the advocates shall mention the date when the cause of action arose and when the petition/suit/appeal etc., was filed.
The procedures followed by the Registry during Vacation Sitting in respect of ‘physical filing’ is applicable to ‘online filing’.
The Registry of the Madras High Court (both the Principal Seat and Madurai Bench) will work from 10.00 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., on all working days during Dussehra Holidays – 2025, except the Court sitting day, on which day, the Registry will function from 10.00 a.m. to 5.45 p.m., or till the rising of the Court, whichever

is later.
HIGH COURT, MADRAS Sd/- S. ALLI
DATED: 23.09.2025 REGISTRAR GENERAL