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The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan mentioned the one-man fee constituted by one other Division Bench of Justices M.S. Ramesh and V. Lakshminarayanan on September 2, 2025, should start the train of discovering out the reality behind the allegations and counter allegations levelled by the police and the protesters in opposition to one another.
“Why are you afraid of the fee? It will solely provide help to in bringing out the reality,” the Chief Justice advised the regulation officers after they argued in opposition to its structure. He additionally took robust exception to an alternate request for appointing a decide from one other State to move the fee. “Mr. Counsel, what sort of submission is that this? We will file in our order that the State has no religion within the retired judges of this court docket,” he mentioned.
The fee, to be headed by V. Parthiban, a retired decide of the Madras High Court, was constituted by the Bench led by Justice Ramesh whereas listening to a habeas corpus petition (HCP) filed by advocate S. Vijay alleging unlawful arrest and harassment of a gaggle of legal professionals and regulation college students, who had supplied authorized help to the conservancy staff, by the police.
Subsequently, when the habeas corpus portfolio bought shifted to a Division Bench of Justices J. Nisha Banu and S. Sounthar, the Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police filed a sub-application to vacate the September 2 order. The Bench led by Ms. Justice Banu on September 9, 2025 ordered that the structure of the fee shall be stored in abeyance until September 17, 2025.
In the meantime, a gaggle of 12 girls conservancy staff filed a writ petition within the High Court in search of a path to the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) in addition to the Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women (TNSCW) to conduct an inquiry into the alleged human rights violations in addition to the fees of sexual harassment raised by the protesters throughout their detention by the police on August 13, 2025.
When their writ petition was heard on September 11, 2025, the Chief Justice’s Bench granted time until October 10, 2025 for the State authorities to file its counter affidavit. It additionally directed the High Court Registry to tag the HCP together with the writ petition for a joint listening to. Subsequently, on September 17, 2025, the Bench led by Justice Banu refused to increase their interim order and requested the regulation officers to method the Chief Justice’s Bench.
Accordingly, a point out was made earlier than the Chief Justice’s Bench for an early listening to of the instances and the issues had been heard on Friday when the court docket refused to intervene with the structure of the one-man fee and insisted that it ought to begin its inquiry dehors the plea pending earlier than the court docket for an inquiry by the SHRC and the TNSCW.
Published – September 19, 2025 05:34 pm IST
