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Justice M. Dhandapani of the Madras High Court connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) recused from proceeding a writ petition filed by Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan challenging a 2019 Government Order (G.O.) done which a corruption lawsuit against him was transferred from a peculiar tribunal successful Vellore to a tribunal successful Chennai.
The justice said, helium had appeared for the Minister during his stint arsenic a lawyer and therefore, does not privation to perceive the contiguous case. He directed the High Court Registry to database the substance earlier Justice V. Lakshminarayanan arsenic per the lasting instructions approved by Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava.
Representing the Minister, advocator Richardson Wilson said, Justice N. Sathish Kumar of the High Court was already seized of different petition filed by his lawsuit against the Chennai court’s refusal to transportation the lawsuit backmost to Vellore and therefore, the contiguous writ petition could beryllium tagged on with that case.
However, Justice Dhandapani said, it would not beryllium due for him to walk adjacent that order. In an affidavit filed on with the writ petition, Mr. Duraimurugan feared the proceedings successful the corruption lawsuit would get delayed if it was conducted successful Chennai since a bulk of the witnesses were residents of Vellore.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption had booked the Minister and his woman D. Shanthakumari successful 2011 connected the complaint of having amassed ₹1.15 crore disproportionate to their known sources of income betwixt April 1, 2006, and March 31, 2009, erstwhile helium had served arsenic Minister for Public Works Department, Prisons and Law successful erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s Cabinet.
