The Madras High Court on Monday made it clear that an order it had passed at 4:40 a.m. on June 23 was only with respect to the AIADMK’s general council meeting held on that day, and it cannot be extended for an indefinite period. The court made the written observation while hearing a plea to stall the next meeting, scheduled for July 11.
The Second Division Bench of Justices M. Duraiswamy and Sunder Mohan also wrote: “We are not expressing any opinion with regard to the general council meeting scheduled to be held on July 11.” It granted time till Thursday for senior counsel Vijay Narayan, representing Edappadi K. Palaniswami, to file his counter-affidavit to a series of sub applications.
General council member M. Shanmugum, represented by his counsel A.K. Sriram, had filed the series of sub applications in his pending original side appeal. In his first application, he had sought to restrain the AIADMK from convening its general council meet and also sought to stay the appointment of A. Tamil Magan Hussain as its presidium chairman.
