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An enquiry ordered by the Madras High Court has substantiated the complaint of Kancheepuram Principal District and Sessions Judge Pa.U. Chemmal having passed an bid to remand a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) successful judicial custody earlier this period owed to a idiosyncratic quality betwixt the justice and his erstwhile Personal Security Officer (PSO).
Justice N. Sathish Kumar connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) directed the High Court Registry to spot the enquiry study of the Registrar (Vigilance) earlier the Vigilance Committee (comprising elder judges of the High Court) for due action. He besides ordered that the enquiry study beryllium placed earlier the Transfer Committee to instrumentality contiguous enactment against the judicial officer.
Passing orders connected a petition filed by the Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police against the remand bid passed by the territory justice connected September 8, 2025, Justice Kumar connected September 9, 2025, acceptable speech the remand bid and directed the Registrar (Vigilance) Jacintha Martin to behaviour a thorough enquiry regarding the allegations that were levelled against the judicial serviceman by the police.
Accordingly, Additional Public Prosecutor K.M.D. Muhilan connected Tuesday told Justice Kumar that the Superintendent of Police, Deputy Superintendent of Police, and the erstwhile PSO to the territory justice had appeared earlier the Registrar (Vigilance), and their statements were recorded. The APP said, 1 much further information came to airy aft the past proceeding of the case.
He pointed retired that the premier allegation of the constabulary was that the territory justice had forced the instrumentality enforcing bureau to registry a transgression lawsuit against his erstwhile PSO R. Lokeshwaran and the latter’s father-in-law, who owned a bakery successful the locality, due to the fact that helium suspected the erstwhile PSO of spreading canards against him. The DSP was remanded for not arresting Mr. Lokeshwaran.
“After the enquiry bid passed by this tribunal during the past hearing, it came to airy that the territory justice had adjacent forced a Food Safety Officer (FSO) successful Kancheepuram to raid the bakery. The FSO besides appeared earlier the Registrar (Vigilance) and his connection excessively was recorded,” Mr. Muhilan said. He urged the tribunal to walk further orders aft perusing the Registrar’s enquiry report.
Stating that helium had gone done the full enquiry report, Justice Kumar said, it substantiates the allegations levelled by the constabulary against the main territory judge, too referring to different charges specified arsenic taking coercive enactment against a section pharmacy, which refused to dispense medicines without a medicine issued by a registered aesculapian practitioner.
Therefore, Justice Kumar directed the Registry to spot the enquiry study earlier the Vigilance Committee for initiation of disciplinary proceedings and besides earlier the Transfer Committee for contiguous action, arsenic it would not beryllium conducive to fto the judicial serviceman proceed successful Kancheepuram immoderate further.
