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TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT PULLED UP BY SUPREME COURT

Team SoOLEGAL 11 Mar 2019 12:23pm

TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT PULLED UP BY SUPREME COURT

G.Rajendran, the Managing Trustee of IDEA, in the year 2006, approached Madras High Court seeking directions to prevent encroachments by any means. It also included religious symbols and political graffiti, advertisements by private parties on the natural resources like mountains, hills, hillocks, roubles, avenue trees and on the centre median of the National and State Highways. 
Madras High Court passed various orders and suggested that Committees be formed to take up the grievances by Rajendran. Suitable actions were also ordered to be taken against the persons who disfigures the walls and other natural resources like mountains, hillocks etc. However, it had observed:

"But the manner in which the petitioner making allegations against the political parties appears to be totally uncalled for. The petitioner must have self-restraint with regard to his feelings, while exercising freedom of speech and expression. Making this sort of allegations, would rather waste the time of this Court and would abuse the process of law. The Government also has got a better business, performing its duties as the executive machinery of the State. Wherever there is violation of law, it is only the Court to interfere or direct to keep things in an orderly manner. Thus, orders are passed from time to time. It cannot be simply said that the Government has not taken any action as regards the complaints made by the petitioner with regard to disfigurement."

Thereafter after being aggrieved by the High Court's judgment, a Special Leave Petition was filed in the Supreme Court by 'In Defence of Environment and Animals (Idea)'. The Supreme Court bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice Sanjiv Khanna has asked the state to respond within two weeks.

The bench has asked the Tamil Nadu Government to explain the steps taken with regard to the defacement/disfigurement on rocks, hills, hillocks and also on public constructions, particularly slogans/messages of political nature depicting the photographs of politicians.



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