HC refuses to restore case for displaying portraits of President, PM
Imposes value of ₹10,000 on the litigant and restrains him from submitting PILs for three years
The Madras High Court on Friday refused to restore a public curiosity litigation petition which had sought a path to show the portraits of President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in all State authorities workplaces and public buildings. The court docket imposed a price of ₹10,000 on the litigant and ordered that it ought to be paid to a Government Medical College.
Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy additionally restrained the litigant R. Jayakkumar, a Bharatiya Janata Party member from Cuddalore, from submitting public curiosity litigation petitions within the High Court for the following three years with out acquiring the specific permission of the Bench involved. They stated the litigant might adorn his personal property with portraits than submitting such petitions.
The court docket had disposed of the PIL petition on April 7 after discovering that the petitioner’s counsel was not current on two events. “It is evident that the petitioner has lost interest in the matter,” the judges stated and disposed of the matter after recording the submissions of Advocate General Vijay Narayan that it was not obligatory to show portraits of a bunch of personalities in all public buildings.
The AG stated {that a} 2006 Government Order (G.O.) makes use of the phrase ‘may’ and due to this fact it was up to the authorities involved to show some of an extended listing of portraits talked about within the G.O.