SC rejects TN govt's appeal against allowing RSS route marches in the state

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Stalin ledTamil Nadus appeal against the Madras high court order allowing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS route marches in the stateA bench of justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal upheld the Madras High Court order which allowed the RSS route march in the stateDismissing the appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu government against the Madras HC order the top court said Therefore it is not possible for us to find fault with the order passed by the Judge either in the main writ petitions or in the review applicationsHence all the special leave petitions are liable to be dismissed the top court saidThe top court has observed that the main objection raised by the State before the High Court was that after the imposition of a ban order on another organization law and order problems cropped up in certain places and that the same led to several cases being registeredThe details of those cases are actually furnished in the memorandum of grounds of special leave petitionBut the Chart provided by the State Government shows that the members of the respondent organization were the victims in many of those cases and that they were not the perpetrators the top court saidAlso readWill not oppose demand for JPC probe into Adani issue for sake of Oppn unity says Sharad PawarSenior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi appeared for the petitioners Tamil Nadu in all the special leave petitions and Senior Advocates Mahesh Jethmalani and Menaka Guruswamy appeared for the respondent RSSEarlier Tamil Nadu Government told the Supreme Court that they are not totally against the RSS route march but cant permit it in sensitive locationsThe court was hearing the Tamil Nadu governments appeal against the Madras High Court order permitting RSS for its route march in the stateOn February 10 Madras High Court directed Tamil Nadu police to grant permission to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS to take route marches in various districts across the State on public roadsRecently the Tamil Nadu Government has challenged two orders of the Madras High Court dated September 22 2022 and November 2 2022Earlier Tamil Nadu Government had also said that they will have a dialogue with the RSS on proposed routes for the march as they are not totally opposed to itThe state government had apprised the court that the government denied holding route marches in the sensitive areas which have faced PFI incidents and have border areas with disturbancesThe lawyer said The government had had some intelligence reportsThe lawyer for Tamil Nadu Government had stressed that they are not fully opposed to the procession but to the manner in which it is proposed to be doneThey are not able to control terrorist organizations and that is why they want to ban the route march the lawyer saidTamil Nadu Government has moved the top court against the Madras High Court order permitting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS to take out its route march in Tamil Nadu on rescheduled datesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever