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INDIA bloc MPs are readying to determination an impeachment question against Justice G.R. Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court successful the discourse of his bid directing the authorities of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple at Thirupparankundram to guarantee that the Karthigai Deepam was lit astatine the deepathoon (pillar) adjacent a dargah atop the hill.
“We are collecting the signatures of the INDIA bloc MPs, and volition taxable them to Parliament tomorrow,” CPI(M) MP from Madurai Su. Venkatesan claimed. One 100 members of the Lok Sabha oregon 50 members of the Rajya Sabha person to motion an impeachment question against a High Court judge.
If the question is accepted, a three-member committee volition analyse it. Thereafter, some Houses indispensable walk the question by a peculiar bulk (two-thirds contiguous and voting, positive implicit bulk of full membership). Finally, the President volition contented the removal order. However, nary justice has been successfully impeached successful India. The DMK, which is coordinating the petition, volition record it successful a time oregon 2 successful the Lok Sabha.
The contention erupted aft Justice Swaminathan on December 1 took up a plea by Hindu Tamilar Katchi founder Rama Ravikumar and allowed devotees to airy the Karthigai Deepam at the deepathoon. When this wasn’t allowed during the Karthigai Deepam festival connected December 3, Mr. Ravikumar filed a contempt petition. The aforesaid day, the Single-Judge Bench allowed Mr. Ravikumar and 10 others to airy the lamp astatine the deepathoon and ordered that they beryllium protected by the Central Industrial Security Force. But the constabulary stopped the radical astatine the foothills, citing the government’s entreaty successful the contempt case.
The stand-off escalated Friday past aft the Tamil Nadu authorities filed an entreaty successful the Supreme Court. A abstracted entreaty was filed successful the Madras High Court against the single-judge order. The Supreme Court has admitted the State’s plea.
