AIADMK leadership issue: HC to hear EPS plea against single Judge order

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

New
Delhi,
Aug
23:
The
Madras
High
Court
on
Tuesday
will
hear
AIADMK
leader
K
Palaniswami’s
plea
against
a
single
judge
order
that
had
ruled
as
invalid
the
party’s
July
11
General
council
meet
that
picked
him
as
the
interim
chief
and
expelled
his
rival
O
Panneerselvam.
Justice
G
Jayachandran
last
week
had
ordered
maintenance
of
status-quo
ante
as
of
June
23
this
year.

This
order
had
stripped
EPS,
as
Palaniswami
is
known,
from
the
post
of
interim
general
secretary
of
the
party
and
came
in
handy
to
OPS,
who
got
his
earlier
posts
of
Treasurer
and
Co-ordinator
of
the
party
restored.

SC
dismisses
plea
seeking
freezing
of
AIADMK
symbol,
imposes
Rs
25K
fine
on
busy
body
litigant

When
the
matter
came
up
before
the
bench
of
Justices
M
Duraiswamy
and
Sundar
Mohan
on
Monday,
Vijay
Narayan,
the
senior
counsel
appearing
for
EPS,
told
the
judges
that
the
order
of
the
single
judge
had
created
a
deadlock
in
the
AIADMK.
He
urged
the
judges
to
hear
the
case
urgently.
He
also
requested
the
judges
to
dispense
with
the
requirement
of
the
original
order
copy
of
Justice
Jayachandran
and
accept
the
online
copy.

The
bench
acceded
to
the
request
and
directed
the
Registry
to
post
it
today.