Retired Judge Hariparanthaman wants shifting of the Thiruparankundram case to some other judge

Retired justice D. Hariparanthaman has urged the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court to transportation the Thirupparankundram lawsuit from Justice G.R. Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to immoderate different judge, alleging bias connected the portion of Justice Swaminathan.

Addressing the media connected Wednesday, the retired justice cited respective instances wherever Mr. Justice Swaminathan had allegedly not followed protocols to contented a contempt announcement against officials of the State government, and had paralysed the authorities machinery. He said the mean process is that successful lawsuit of a last order, which should beryllium successful written signifier and not successful the signifier of an oral judgment, the justice should see the views of the other parties. That had not happened successful this case, helium said.

The retired justice besides pointed retired that successful a concern wherever prohibitory orders had been promulgated by the Madurai Collector, Mr. Justice Swaminathan, without seeking the Collector’s view, went connected to cancel the prohibitory orders himself connected December 4. The mean process is to record a caller lawsuit for cancelling the orders by proclaiming a ‘Rule Nisi’, helium added.

S. Vanchinathan, coordinator of the Matha Nallinakka Makkal Kootamaippu, of Madurai, said the deepathoon (pillar) successful Thirupparankundram is really a survey chromatic and not a spiritual structure.

Citing a reply from Survey of India, Mr. Vanchinathan said it had been intelligibly stated by Officer Surveyor and Chief Public Information Officer P. Palanimuthu, of Geo-spatial Data Centre, successful effect to a Right To Information (RTI) petition from A. Abdul Jabbar regarding the survey chromatic successful March 2022, that 2 stones had been installed arsenic portion of the Geometrial Trigonometry presumption (GT station) to beryllium utilized successful the survey. One had been damaged, and the different is the 1 that is beleaguered now, helium said.