HC disposes of suo motu proceedings

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court just lately disposed of the suo motu proceedings initiated in 2020 to direct authorities to supply a pathway giving entry to the burial floor from the villages the place Scheduled Caste folks had been residing in Melur in order to allow them to take the useless our bodies to the burial floor.

In 2020, the court docket had initiated the suo motu proceedings based mostly on a information report a few group of Scheduled Caste folks in Melur in Madurai district who had been pressured to hold a useless physique by way of an agricultural subject as there was no pathway resulting in the burial floor.

A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and A.D. Maria Clete disposed of the proceedings after Melur Tahsildar, in a standing report, submitted that land for an various burial floor had been earmarked and offered. Further services would even be offered.

The court docket directed the Tahsildar to conduct an inspection, determine the encroachments, if any, and take away them, thereby enabling the folks to utilise the pathway to achieve the burial floor. The court docket directed the authorities to supply all services within the burial floor earmarked for the good thing about the folks. The court docket disposed of the suo motu proceedings.