New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday granted four more weeks to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Union Transport Minister T R Balu and others to file their replies on a contempt petition on their alleged move to go ahead with a bandh on Sethusamudram controversy last year.
A Bench of Justices B N Aggarwal and G S Singhvi gave the petitioner, AIADMK, three weeks to file its rejoinder once the replies were filed by Karunanidhi and others.
The apex court extended the time after the Tamil Nadu Government counsel sought more time to file the replies.
On October 29, the apex court had issued notices to TN chief minister and others and exempted them from personal appearance in the matter.
The Bench had issued the notices after the counsel for opposition AIADMK furnished in Court photographs and various news clippings to prove that the ruling party had actively sponsored the bandh despite the apex Court's order prohibiting it.
The counsel also told the court that the Union Transport Minister had allegedly made several inflammatory and contemptuous remarks against the apex Court for prohibiting the bandh.
The apex court had sought filing of the contempt petition following a complaint from the AIADMK that its order on September 30, restraining the ruling party and its constituents from going ahead with the bandh call was ignored.
THE HINDU; Monday, March 31, 2008
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- Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)
- Lawyer Practising at Supreme Court of India. Court Experience: Criminal, Civil & PIL (related to Property, Tax, Custom & Duties, MVAC, insurance, I.P.R., Copyrights & Trademarks, Partnerships, Labour Disputes, etc.) Socio-Legal: Child Rights, Mid Day Meal Programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Women Rights, Against Female Foeticide, P.R.Is, Bonded Labour, Child labour, Child marriage, Domestic violence, Legal Literacy, HIV/AIDS, etc. Worked for Legal Aid/Advise/Awareness/Training/Empowerment/Interventions/Training & Sensitisation.
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