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Civil nine members person urged the authorities to accord a State ceremonial to the departed jurist David Annoussamy arsenic a befitting tribute to his immense contributions arsenic a ineligible luminary of planetary renown, a prolific author, and a torchbearer of Indo-French jurisprudential and taste relations.
The erstwhile Judge of the Madras High Court died astatine the property of 98 owed to age-related unwellness connected January 17, 2026, leaving down his wife, 2 sons and 2 daughters.
In a missive to Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, doc and erstwhile president of the Alliance Francaise, Satish Nallam, noted that Justice David Annoussamy “was not lone a distinguished jurist of nationalist and planetary repute but besides a towering nationalist intelligence and a motivation dependable of Puducherry”.
“His lifelong committedness to justice, law values, quality rights, and Indo-French ineligible and taste relations brought immense pridefulness to our Union Territory. He represented Puducherry with dignity connected planetary platforms and remained profoundly rooted successful its societal and ethical fabric”, the missive said.
The missive besides noted that Justice Annoussamy was wide respected arsenic a nationalist personality, thinker, mentor, and conscience keeper of society, whose power extended crossed generations of ineligible professionals, administrators, academics, and citizens. “His passing marks an irreparable nonaccomplishment to Puducherry and to the federation astatine large”.
Justice Annoussamy volition besides beryllium remembered for aligning with, and providing mentorship to a big of civic causes to amended Puducherry, said Sunaina Mandeen of PondyCAN and the People for Pondicherry’s Heritage organisations.
Especially notable was his enactment for the Alliance for Good Governance, a conjugation of NGOs advocating for biology and developmental issues, she said.
An alumnus of the Petit Séminaire School, Justice Annoussamy graduated from the erstwhile French Law College with a “Licence de droit” (bachelor successful law) grade successful 1953.
For higher studies, helium proceeded to France where, aft probe trips to London, Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, obtained a PhD from the University of Montpellier successful 1955.
On his instrumentality to erstwhile Pondicherry, helium was appointed manager of the Education department. He aboriginal joined the territory court, wherever his rulings particularly astir labour instrumentality and modulation from French instrumentality to Indian instrumentality helped redraw the ineligible strategy of the Union Territory.
After a stint arsenic Chief Judge, helium was elevated arsenic Judge to the Madras High Court. Post retirement, helium was appointed Vice Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal. He besides chaired an enquiry committee connected the preservation strategy and headed the newly-constituted user forum. Many of his rulings went connected to acceptable longstanding precedents.
In 1972, helium founded the Pondicherry Law College (now the Dr. Ambdekar Government Law College). Together with ineligible stalwarts similar Madhav Menon and Ram Jethmalani, helium helped shaped the nationalist ineligible curriculum. Acknowledged arsenic an adept successful comparitive law, helium besides helped French jurist Alain Supiot to found the Nantes Institute for Advance Study (2008) that aimed to foster planetary world collaboration.
A prolific writer, helium authored books successful Tamil, English and French.
Apart from achieving excellence successful the ineligible domain, which unsocial would possibly people him retired arsenic a pridefulness of Puducherry, Justice Annoussamy’s contributions were multidimensional redefined truthful galore aspects of the city’s evolution, said Ms. Mandeen. “During our associations with him, including for curating the Pondicherry Heritage Festival, ever emphasised the value of engaging the younker to transportation connected the advocacy of societal causes”, said Ms. Mandeen.
