The Madras High Court on Friday appointed two of its retired judges as the Committee of Administrators to administer the Church of South India (CSI) as well as the CSI Trust Association until the conduct of fresh elections for the Diocesan Councils and the Synod.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Subramanian and R. Sakthivel appointed former judges R. Balasubramanian and V. Bharathidasan as administrators and said that the latter shall take charge of the administration of CSI and CSI Trust Association with immediate effect.
The Bench gave liberty to the administrators to appoint any retired district judge/judges to assist them in the process of administering the two institutions and conducting elections first to the Diocesan Councils and then to the Synod from among those nominated by the councils.
