The Madras High Court on Tuesday held it was the duty of the State to provide necessary police protection for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general council and executive council meet scheduled at Vanagaram near Chennai on Thursday since there was an apprehension of violence due to a factional dispute.
Justice N. Sathish Kumar also agreed with senior counsel Vijay Narayan that mere calling of a meeting of the general council and the executive council could not be stalled by a faction of the party by objecting to grant of police permission and that it was up to the members of the two councils to take a final call on the agenda of the meet.
Since the Avadi police commissionerate had raised 31 queries regarding the event, the judge directed the writ petitioner P. Benjamin, a former Minister and incumbent Tiruvallur central district secretary of AIADMK, to provide clarification with respect to those queries by Tuesday itself so that the protection can be provided at the earliest.
