Advocate B. Jagannath of the Madras High Court had filed a Public Interest Litigation seeking a Relief for the Tamilnadu Police to Create an Anti Terrorist Squad – Quick Reaction response unit for which he had given representation in May 2022  Advocate General Shanmugasundaram had appeared for State Government and Public Prosecutor Mohammed Ali Jinnah had appeared for DGP and ADGP Coastal Police

: Advocate B. Jagannath of the Madras High Court had filed a Public Interest Litigation seeking a Relief for the Tamilnadu Police to Create an Anti Terrorist Squad – Quick Reaction response unit for which he had given representation in May 2022
Advocate General Shanmugasundaram had appeared for State Government and Public Prosecutor Mohammed Ali Jinnah had appeared for DGP and ADGP Coastal Police
[The Petitioner had argued in length that despite Telangana, AP, Karnataka, Goa, Haryana, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Delhi police, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Kerala,Bihar and various other states having ATS Wing Tamil Nadu police didn’t have a dedicated special wing to handle Specific Terrorist attack and had further insisted on Corner shot Modern Weapons Systems, Kevlar Bullet proof Vests, Kalyani M4 Vehicle to be part of the ATS Wing in case it’s formed by the Government instead of usual Glock and INSAS Rifles used by the Police as a counter measure as the Terrorists had modern Automatic Assault Rifles as seen from Mumbai Attacks. On a specific question posed by the Bench regarding the Threat the Petitioner highlighted ISIS, AlQaeda Terrorist Operatives and LTTE operatives arrested across various parts in Tamil Nadu this year alone by NIA including the Culprit behind Easter Bomb blasts in Colombo being arrested in Tamil Nadu by NIA as reported by BBC World news Service. After hearing the detailed arguments the Division Bench comprising of ACJ TRJ and DKKJ Adjourned the matter to 4 weeks for counter by state