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A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has stayed a azygous judge’s bid against the registration and cognition of caste-based socieities successful the State but made it wide that the interim enactment would beryllium applicable lone with respect to South Indian Senguntha Mahajana Sangam, which had preferred a writ entreaty against the order.
First Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan granted the interim enactment till February 11, 2026, and ordered notices to the Inspector General of Registration (IGR), Registrar of Societies, Chennai district, and a fewer different officials, seeking their effect to the writ appeal.
The enactment was granted aft advocator S.P. Chockalingam, representing the appellant, told the tribunal that his lawsuit had filed a writ petition successful transportation with the predetermination to the registered nine but the azygous justice had gone astir issuing sweeping directions unconnected to the lawsuit earlier him.
“Taking into information the submission of learned counsel for the appellant that without determination being immoderate situation to the name/title of the appellant society, directions person been issued wholly unconcerned with the contented that arose for information successful the writ petition, it is directed that the impugned (under challenge) bid shall stay stayed successful truthful acold arsenic its exertion to the contiguous appellant is concerned,” the Bench wrote.
Single judge’s order
It was Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy who had passed the orders nether situation successful the entreaty connected April 16, 2025, portion disposing of a batch of 3 writ petitions filed by South Indian Senguntha Mahajana Sangam based successful Chennai, Tiruchengode Vatta Kongu Velalar Sangam from Namakkal district, and Poor Educational Fund, besides from Chennai.
Disapproving of the signifier of registering caste-based societies, the justice had directed the IGR to gully a database of societies that had been named aft peculiar castes, functioning with the nonsubjective of promoting the interests of radical belonging to that caste and offering rank lone to them.
After drafting the database of each specified societies crossed the State, the IGR was directed to contented notices to them with instructions to driblet caste references from their names, amend their bylaws which perpetuate the caste system, and unfastened rank to each without immoderate restrictions based connected caste.
He had further ordered that nary schoolhouse oregon college, beryllium it government-run oregon a backstage institution, successful the State should transportation a caste appellation from the world twelvemonth 2025-26 and that notices indispensable beryllium issued to each schools and colleges which transportation caste appellations, either straight oregon arsenic a portion of the names of donors, to driblet specified prefixes oregon suffixes.
If the schoolhouse managements acrophobic neglect to driblet the caste appellations, their designation should beryllium withdrawn and the students of specified schools should beryllium transferred to different recognised institutions from the world twelvemonth 2026-27, the justice had said.
Then, the justice had besides directed the State authorities to instrumentality the recommendations made by a committee headed by retired justice K. Chandru to region presumption specified arsenic ‘Kallar Reclamation’ and ‘Adi Dravidar Welfare’ from the names of authorities schools.
Observing that law courts could not entertain cases filed by caste-based associations, the justice had said, associations which perpetuate the caste strategy could not expect the High Court to travel to their rescue and workout its writ jurisdiction nether Article 226 of the Constitution to resoluteness disputes related to specified associations.
Lamenting that the caste strategy was not confined to 1 religion but cuts crossed astir each religions, the justice pointed retired that Poor Educational Fund was a nine that restricts rank to the Gavaras, Balijas, and Telagas belonging to the Catholic sect of Christianity.
“The caste strategy that is prevailing arsenic connected day has to bash thing with religion. As a substance of fact, it tin beryllium seen from the supra that it is cutting crossed religion, and radical are not consenting to enactment down this load from their head, and these fanatics volition transportation it adjacent to the moon,” the justice had lamented.
