India, April 12 -- Ten bills that were cleared twice by the Tamil Nadu assembly but were stalled and reserved by governor RN Ravi for the President's clearance since 2020 finally became laws after the Supreme Court's intervention on Saturday. The bills did not get Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi's approval amid his standoff with chief minister MK Stalin and the DMK government.

A Supreme Court judgement on Saturday put a timeline on the governor taking action on a bill within one month. It also stated that the President should take action on the bills referred for consideration by governors within three months.

A bench of Justice SB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan ruled that the Governor could not reserve a bill for the President's conside...