Madras HC brings curtains down on special courts established in 2011 for exclusive trial of land grab cases Registrar General P. Dhanabal issues an official

Madras HC brings curtains down on special courts established in 2011 for exclusive trial of land grab cases
Registrar General P. Dhanabal issues an official memorandum for transferring the cases from special courts to jurisdictional magistrate courts in view of a recent verdict of the Supreme Court
May 11, 2023 09:21 pm | Updated 09:21 pm IST – CHENNAI

MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.
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The High Court’s Registrar General has now instructed the Principal District Judges to ensure that the land grab cases get re-transferred to the magistrate courts.
The High Court’s Registrar General has now instructed the Principal District Judges to ensure that the land grab cases get re-transferred to the magistrate courts.

The Madras High Court has brought the curtains down on special courts that were established across the State in 2011, during the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) regime led by the then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, for exclusively trying cases of land grabbing.

Issuing an official memorandum, the High Court’s Registrar General P. Dhanabal has ordered transfer of all such cases from the special courts to the jurisdictional magistrate courts since the Supreme Court had on May 4 this year upheld the quashing of a 2011 Government