Truly reckless and politically motivated plea: Madras High Court

Describing it as truly reckless and politically motivated, Madras High Court on Friday rejected the plea which was filed by the local administration minister SP Velumani seeking actions against Arappor Iakkam for accusing corruption and abandoning a number of contracts on social media that violated the court order.

Minister as misuse of the court process

Slamming the petition by the minister as misuse of the court process, the first bench consisting of the chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said, “As would be proven from the relevant sequence, no one said that the pend Proceedings should not allow adverse inference against the petitioner or applicant Minister and that the court has not experienced advantages on both sides.”

Short-looking political purposes

Holds that the court does not appreciate that the plea has been transferred for short-looking political purposes, the bench imposes the cost of Rs 10 token to be paid by the ministerial chair to any charity institution.

Slamming the petition by the minister as misuse of the court process, the first bench consisting of the chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said, "As would be proven from the relevant sequence, no one said that the pend Proceedings should not allow adverse inference against the petitioner or applicant Minister and that the court has not experienced advantages on both sides."

However, appearing for Velumani, ARL Sundaresan, senior counsel for the minister proposed that there was no hatred in the request and asked for a bench not to force the cost even if it was one rupee, noting that the command could be misunderstood. The bench is obliged to this.

Complaints of corruption in the Minister

The bench also confirms that there is no embargo or a joke command against anyone who levels such accusations, even if the party to the process.

This problem relates to the PIL that is filed by Arappor Iakkam who is looking for directions to DVAC to register FIR based on the complaints of corruption in the minister, who is an AIDMK candidate for the constituency of the Thondamuthur constituency.

Preliminary Investigation

Velumani has proposed that the DVAC officer appointed by the court has completed a preliminary investigation, based on which the state government decided to stop further action. But when this problem arose before the last court, the bench considered the next election and delayed the application until April 21 quoted that there was no detrimental conclusion that had to be drawn against it based on the plea that was filed.