The Madras High Court on Thursday, March 28, 2024 permitted the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw two writ appeals filed during the previous AIADMK government in 2019 against incumbent Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Suresh Kumar and K. Kumaresh Babu observed that the court could not compel a litigant to conduct a case when he/she/it wishes to abandon the matter completely, in the midst of the hearing, without reserving any right whasoever.
Though AIADMK former Member of Parliament J. Jayavardhan had filed an application to get impleaded in the writ appeal, the judges closed the application by terming it as unnecessary. They said, it would be a futile exercise to allow the application when the appeals had been withdrawn.
