The Madras High Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on an appeal preferred by the AIADMK’s expelled leader, O. Panneerselvam, against a restraint order preventing him from using the party flag, symbol and letterhead, and from claiming to be the coordinator or even a primary member of the party.
Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq deferred their verdict after senior counsel P.H. Arvindh Pandian and Abdul Saleem, representing the appellant, and senior counsel Vijay Narayan, representing AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, questioned the maintainability of the cases filed by each other.
Opening the arguments for the appellant, Mr. Pandian said Justice N. Sathish Kumar had on November 7 granted an interim injunction restraining his client from using the party flag, symbol and letterhead without giving decisive findings on the legal issues of balance of convenience and irreparable loss.
