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The Madras High Court has transferred Kancheepuram Principal District Judge Pa.U. Chemmal, who had been facing flak successful caller times for alleged misuse of his authority, and posted him arsenic the president of the imperishable Lok Adalat successful Ariyalur district.
A transportation notification issued by the High Court’s Registrar General S. Alli connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) stated that Deepthi Arivunithi, present serving arsenic Principal Judge, Commercial Court, Chennai shall instrumentality complaint arsenic the Kancheepuram Principal District Judge with contiguous effect.
Mr. Chemmal came to adverse announcement connected September 8 erstwhile he passed a suo motu bid remanding Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) M. Sankar Ganesh successful judicial custody for having failed to apprehension the judge’s erstwhile Personal Security Officer (PSO) R. Lokeswaran and the latter’s father-in-law.
On September 9, the Kancheepuram Superintendent of Police filed a petition successful the High Court accusing Mr. Chemmal of having remanded the DSP owed to a idiosyncratic enmity with his erstwhile PSO. Justice N. Sathish Kumar took superior enactment of the contented and acceptable speech the remand order.
Then, Additional Public Prosecutor K.M.D. Muhilan told the tribunal that Mr. Chemmal suspected the erstwhile PSO of spreading rumours astir him and therefore, pressurised the section constabulary to registry a transgression lawsuit against the erstwhile PSO and the latter’s father-in-law who owned a bakery successful the locality.
Finding the charges to beryllium serious, Justice Kumar directed the High Court’s Registrar (Vigilance) Jacintha Martin to behaviour an inquiry and taxable a report. The enquiry report, submitted connected September 23, not lone confirmed the complaint but besides revealed that Mr. Chemmal had forced a Food Safety Officer excessively to behaviour a hunt astatine the bakery.
‘Habitual maltreatment of power’
The Registrar (Vigilance) informed the tribunal Mr. Chemmal was successful the wont of misusing his authorization and that helium had directed a Drug Inspector to instrumentality enactment against a pharmacy which refused to dispense medicines to the territory justice without a valid aesculapian prescription.
Further, it was brought to the announcement of the High Court that Mr. Chemmal had directed the Kancheepuram municipality commissioner to enactment against an flat adjacent to his residence for not allowing his idiosyncratic car to beryllium parked wrong the flat complex.
The Registrar (Vigilance) had besides narrated respective different incidents regarding misuse of powerfulness by the territory judge. Therefore, Justice Kumar directed the Registrar to spot her enquiry study earlier the High Court’s Vigilance Committee, comprising elder judges, for initiating disciplinary action.
Observing it whitethorn not beryllium conducive to fto Mr. Chemmal proceed arsenic a Principal District Judge until the completion of the disciplinary proceedings, Justice Kumar had directed the Registrar General to spot the substance earlier the Transfer Committee excessively for contiguous action.
