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The Madras High Court has dismissed a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition seeking a absorption to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to enactment against Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s caput P. Umanath for having violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by issuing administrative instructions to Collectors and constabulary officers.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan rejected the plea by advocator A. Mohandoss, who sought Mr. Umanath’s transfer, aft the ECI counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan said that the petitioner had not submitted immoderate worldly to substantiate his allegation. The counsel further said that a PIL petition could not beryllium filed for transferring a authorities official.
