A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker’s November 7, 2006 order withdrawing the sanction, granted in 2005, to prosecute incumbent Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in the flyover construction scam case.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice J. Sathya Narayana Prasad on Thursday directed the litigant Manickam Athappa Gounder of Coimbatore to deposit ₹1 lakh in the court before April 26 to prove his bonafide intention behind filing the case.
When the judges wanted to know why an order passed in 2006 had been challenged after 18 years, the petitioner’s counsel said, the Speaker’s order was not available in the public domain all these years. Only recently, the petitioner came to know about it and hence the petition.
