The Madras high court on Friday sought a response from the central and state governments on a plea seeking the Centre to place the proposal letter of the state government before the President for obtaining consent for authorising the use of Tamil in proceedings of the high court.
Plea to use Tamil in HC proceedings
Mar 27, 2021, 04:39 IST
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Madurai: The Madras high court on Friday sought a response from the central and state governments on a plea seeking the Centre to place the proposal letter of the state government before the President for obtaining consent for authorising the use of Tamil in proceedings of the high court.
A division bench of justices M M Sundresh and S Ananthi was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by S Ilango, secretary of the lawyers association of Madurai district court.
The petitioner stated that consent should be obtained for the use of Tamil which is the official language of the state in the court proceedings as per Article 348 (2) of the Constitution. He stated that Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar had obtained consent from the President to use the language of their respective states in the court proceedings.
He stated that the state government had prepared a proposal to use Tamil in the proceedings of the high court and the central government should place the same before the President for obtaining consent. tnn
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HC sets aside order against Tamil univ VC appointment
Kaushik Kannan | Mar 27, 2021, 04:38 IST
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Madurai: The Madras high court has set aside an order of a single judge who held that the appointment of G Balasubramanian, vice-chancellor (VC) of Tamil University at Thanjavur was invalid as the search committee was constituting by violating the rules. The court observed that there were no materials produced against the members of the search committee to prove any bias as alleged.
The single judge had held that the committee was constituted in violation of the UGC Regulations and provisions of Tamil University Act which says that persons nominated should not be a member of any authority of the university. Hence, the judge had directed the state to reconstitute a fresh search committee in tune with the Act.
Challenging the order, a batch of appeals were preferred including the one filed by Balasubramanian. Balasubramaniam contended that two members who were nominated to the search committee had past connections with the university and were not associated with the university at present.
A division bench of justices M M Sundresh and S Ananthi observed that the words ‘shall not be connected with the university or college or recognised institution of the university’ cannot be stretched, by no imagination to mean that an ex-syndicate member and ex-VC would be disqualified from the member of the search committee.
The judges observed that no materials were produced to prove bias against the members of the search committee nor do they find any legal malice is in existence. The judges observed that they do not find any likelihood of bias involved and Balasubramanian who was selected as VC is not known to any of the nominees, who formed part of the committee nor had any connection with the university.
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