Veda Nilayam HC reserves orders on appeal
Chennai Dec 20 PTI A division bench of the Madras High Court on Monday reserved its orders on an appeal from the AIADMK challenging the November 24 ruling of a single judge who had set aside all the orders of the previous government on converting late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaas residence here into a memorial The bench of Justices Paresh Upadhyay and Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup reserved its orders after listening to brief arguments advanced by the senior counsel for petitioner — AIADMK leader and former Law Minister and the partys Villupuram district secretary C Ve Shanmugham and Advocate-General R Shanmugasundaram The AG told the judges the present government did not choose to challenge the orders of the single judge as a division bench had held against the conversion on an earlier occasion This follows a submission from petitioners senior counsel A L Somayaji earlier that mere change in the government should not result in non-challenge to the orders of the single judge In his November 24 order Justice N Seshasayee had quashed all the orders passed from 2017 by the then AIADMK government which ultimately culminated in the taking over of the sprawling Poes Garden property in 2020 to convert it into a memorial which was inaugurated in January this year He had also observed there was no need for a second memorial in addition to the one on the Marina This would be a mere waste of public money No public interest would also be serviced he had saidThe appeal sought to quash the orders of the single judge after expunging all the remarks made by him PTI CORR SA BN BN
Chennai Dec 20 PTI A division bench of the Madras High Court on Monday reserved its orders on an appeal from the AIADMK challenging the November 24 ruling of a single judge who had set aside all the orders of the previous government on converting late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaas residence here into a memorial The bench of Justices Paresh Upadhyay and Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup reserved its orders after listening to brief arguments advanced by the senior counsel for petitioner — AIADMK leader and former Law Minister and the partys Villupuram district secretary C Ve Shanmugham and Advocate-General R Shanmugasundaram The AG told the judges the present government did not choose to challenge the orders of the single judge as a division bench had held against the conversion on an earlier occasion This follows a submission from petitioners senior counsel A L Somayaji earlier that mere change in the government should not result in non-challenge to the orders of the single judge In his November 24 order Justice N Seshasayee had quashed all the orders passed from 2017 by the then AIADMK government which ultimately culminated in the taking over of the sprawling Poes Garden property in 2020 to convert it into a memorial which was inaugurated in January this year He had also observed there was no need for a second memorial in addition to the one on the Marina This would be a mere waste of public money No public interest would also be serviced he had saidThe appeal sought to quash the orders of the single judge after expunging all the remarks made by him PTI CORR SA BN BN
