The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation petition which sought a direction to the Election Commission of India to freeze the 'two leaves' symbol due to the infighting between AIADMK leaders Edappadi K. Palaniswami and O. Panneerselvam.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice N. Mala also imposed costs of ₹25,000 on the litigant P.A. Josseph, president of unregistered JJ Party, after observing that he appeared to be a busybody who had filed the case for publicity.
The judges pointed out that the present PIL petition was absolutely unnecessary when the party leaders had already invoked the civil jurisdiction to settle their disputes and the court had been passing a series of orders on those suits.
