The Supreme Court has exempted Tamil Nadu Home Secretary P. Amudha and Director General of Police/Head of Police Force Shankar Jiwal and other officials from appearing in person before the Madras High Court in contempt of court proceedings, related to an RSS route march case.
In an affidavit filed before Justice G. Jayachandran who had issued statutory notices requiring the presence of the officials on the contempt plea, the DGP/HoPF said, the judge had passed an order on October 16, 2023, directing the police to grant permission for the route marches.
However, the order copy was made available to the police department only on October 18, 2023 and it filed an appeal before the Supreme Court on October 19, 2023. The appeal was numbered on October 20, 2023 and listed for hearing before the apex court on November 3, 2023.
