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Four months earlier the Thirupparankundram row, MPs of the INDIA bloc wrote separately to President Droupadi Murmu and past Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai astir the behaviour of Madras High Court judge, Justice G.R. Swaminathan, accusing him of favouring advocates from the Brahmin assemblage and those associated with “right helping ideologies”.
The identical letters were dated August 11, 4 months earlier the Opposition sought a question successful the Parliament to region Justice Swaminathan, a justice connected the Madurai Bench of the High Court.
These letters said Justice Swaminathan’s behaviour amounted to “proved misbehaviour and gross misconduct”, affecting the impartiality, transparency and the secular functioning of the judiciary.
“During his tenure arsenic a Single Bench Judge, Justice G.R. Swaminathan is perceived to person consistently prioritised listings and clip slots for a circumstantial radical of advocates, peculiarly those from the Brahmin assemblage and those aligned with close helping ideologies,” the letters said.
The MPs said the signifier of the judge’s behaviour showed a “caste-based preference”, contributing to a cognition of exclusivity and caste alignment successful judicial functioning.
The spotlight is trained connected the justice aft his caller bid directing the authorities of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple astatine Thirupparankundram, Madurai, to guarantee that Karthigai Deepam was lit astatine a deepathoon (pillar) adjacent a dargah atop the hill.
“Several rulings and observations by His Lordship bespeak a discernible ideological leaning right-wing governmental philosophy. While judges whitethorn clasp idiosyncratic beliefs, these indispensable not power judicial reasoning, peculiarly successful cases involving cardinal rights and number protections arsenic enshrined successful the Constitution,” the letters said.
The letters quoted respective instances which, according to them, displayed the “ideological partisanship” of the judge. One of them, the letters said, was successful a lawsuit to licence ‘Annathanam’ (donating escaped meals to the devotees) and ‘Angapradakshinam’ (rolling implicit plantain leaves near by devotees aft eating) astatine a temple successful Karur.
“His Lordship’s bid permitted this uncivilised practice, superseding a anterior Division Bench judgement which had banned the aforesaid signifier astatine the aforesaid temple arsenic inhuman… This cognition of ideological partisanship undermines nationalist spot successful judicial neutrality and challenges the anticipation that courts stay autarkic of governmental oregon societal affiliations,” the letters had said.
