Tag all petitions on TN govt move to shift ACL: HC

Updated on: Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Madras High Court directed its Registrar(Judicial) to tag all petitions filed in connection with the Tamil Nadu government's move to shift Anna Centenary Library from its present location to the Directorate of Public Instruction(DPI) complex.
  
When petitions challenging the government's decision to shift ACL to DPI campus came up for hearing, the First Bench, comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam directed Registrar (Judicial) 'to tag all cases filed in the Principal Bench or Madurai Bench along with these cases.'
  
Earlier,state Advocate General A Navaneethakrishnan sought more time to file a counter affidavit in response to the petitions on the plea that several writ petitions relating to ACL had been filed in the principal Bench and Madurai Bench.
  
The Bench posted the petitions for hearing after four weeks.
  
Meanwhile, the Bench closed a petition filed by advocate J Ramesh to implead himself in the petitions.
  
Making it very clear the court had no intention to let the PIL get politicised, the Bench said 'the petitioner virtually wants to get himself impleaded as a party respondent and to support the state."
   
Stating that the court would decide the petitions even if the petitioners or respondents assisted the court or not, the Judges said 'when any serious matter is brought to the notice of this court by way of a PIL,it is the court's duty to decide the same,' and closed the impleading petition.
  
On November 4 2011,the court had restrained the government from shifting the library from its present location.

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