The Madras High Court has carried out multiple corrections to a judgment delivered by it on March 6 on a batch of three writ of quo warranto petitions filed against Ministers Udhayanidhi Stalin and P.K. Sekarbabu and the Nilgiris Member of Parliament A. Raja in connection with the Sanatana Dharma row.
Justice Anita Sumanth had pronounced the verdict on March 6 afternoon and a web copy of it was made available on the High Court website on March 7 morning. However, on March 8, the first web copy was taken down from the website and replaced with another copy containing multiple corrections.
In paragraph number 43 of the first web copy, the judge had recorded the writ petitioners’ submission that the State of Tamil Nadu had a list of 184 castes falling within backward and most backward classes but such divisions were a creation of recent times and not that of vedic literature.
