Madras High Court judge Justice G.R. Taking a big step, the Indi alliance has submitted a notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to start the impeachment process against Swaminathan. This notice includes signatures of 120 MPs. Thiruparankundram has emerged after the Karthigai Deepam controversy. On Tuesday (December 9), DMK MPs Kanimozhi, T.R. Several opposition leaders, including Baalu, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, submitted this notice to the Speaker. This notice of Indi Coalition has been written to demand initiation of the process of removing the judge from the post under Article 217, 124 of the Constitution of India.
VIDEO | Delhi: DMK leader Kanimozhi submits an Impeachment Notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking the removal of Madras High Court Judge GR Swaminathan, after obtaining signatures from more than 120 MPs.
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In the notice, Indi Coalition has made several allegations against Justice Swaminathan, in which questions have been raised on his judicial impartiality and transparency. Also a senior advocate and lawyers belonging to a particular community (Hindu community) allegedly getting undue benefits. He has been accused of giving decisions influenced by political ideology and acting against the secular constitutional values of India. Along with this, copies of the letters sent to the President and the Chief Justice of India have also been attached.
In fact, Justice Swaminathan of Madras High Court ordered that the traditional lamp of Karthigai Deepam be lit on the ‘Deepthoon’ pillar located on the hill of Thiruparankundram by 4th December. The order said that this practice would not violate the religious rights of the Muslim community. Overriding the objections of the temple and dargah management, a limited number of devotees were allowed to light lamps with safety.
But the state government refused to implement the order citing threat to law and order. After this Hindu groups protested, police used force to stop the devotees, devotees clashed with the police, the matter turned into a political and judicial-religious confrontation between DMK.
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai launched a scathing attack on the opposition alliance, saying that the INDI block was proudly displaying its anti-Hindu attitudes. Calling it the politics of minority appeasement, he said that despite the appeal being pending in the Supreme Court, the move of impeachment gives the message that the decisions are being challenged due to political pressure.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the petition of the Tamil Nadu government, in which the High Court’s order regarding lighting of lamps has been challenged. The court will now take the final decision on this religious-disciplinary issue.
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