The Madras High Court has allowed petitions filed by Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy and his wife P. Visalatchi to implead the Registrar-General (R-G) of the High Court as one of the respondents in a suo motu revision taken up by the court on August 10 against their acquittal from a disproportionate assets case.
Justice G. Jayachandran agreed with Senior Counsel N.R. Elango, representing the Minister, that the R-G was a necessary party since the suo motu revision had been taken up after finding fault with an administrative order passed by the High Court on July 8, 2022 transferring the trial from Villupuram to Vellore district.
Mr. Elango told the court that his clients had absolutely nothing to do with the transfer of the trial from one district to another, which appeared to be an administrative order passed by the then Chief Justice of the High Court on the basis of a recommendation made by two portfolio judges of Villupuram district.
