Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and its president G.K. Mani have filed individual writ appeals before the Madras High Court challenging the refusal of a single judge to interfere with an inquiry initiated by the State government to recover the alleged loss incurred by the public exchequer when State-run liquor shops were burnt and government buses were damaged during the 2013 Marakkanam violence.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the writ appeals to Monday at the request of appellants’ counsel K. Balu.
The PMK had preferred the appeal against an order passed by Justice S.M. Subramaniam who had directed the Commissioner of Revenue Administration to proceed with the inquiry and complete it within four months.
