Chennai News Highlights: AIADMK meets TN Guv over L&O situation, RSS moves HC against restricting its march

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has moved the Madras High Court with an application challenging the recent order of a single judge, which permitted its 'route march' and public meetings in auditoriums and open grounds alone.

The letter patent appeal (LPA) from G Subramaniam, also sought to punish the State government officials and the police personnel for not complying with the court's earlier order directing them to grant permission to the RSS to take out the march on October 2.

This included State Home Secretary, DGP, Greater Chennai Police Commissioner and the inspector attached to Korattur police station here.

Justice G K Ilanthiraiyan on November 4, among other things, had stipulated that the march and meetings should be conducted in compounded premises such as grounds or stadiums.

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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami met Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi at Raj Bhavan in Chennai Wednesday and urged him to take note of several alleged irregularities by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government.

EPS said despite warnings from central intelligence agencies, the state government had not taken measures to prevent the Coimbatore blast on October 23 and if it had happened in a crowded place, several lives would have been lost.

He also added that the violent incidents in Kallakurichi, which took place in the aftermath of the death of a Class 12 girl, could have been prevented if the police had carried out a proper investigation.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Wednesday inaugurated several projects and laid the foundation stone for various initiatives in his Kolathur constituency. 

Among others, he inaugurated a hostel building and a renovated badminton court.

The foundation stone was laid for projects to be undertaken by the city corporation and the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), all at an estimated Rs 38.98 crore, a statement said.

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The Tamil Nadu government Tuesday issued a notification declaring the Arittapatti village near Melur in Madurai district as a biodiversity heritage site under Section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.

The site is situated in an area of 193.21 hectare and is the first Biodiversity Heritage Site (BHS) to be notified in the state. According to a statement, the Arittapatti village is surrounded by a chain of seven barren granite hillocks that act as a watershed and support close to 72 lakes, 200 natural spring pools and three check dams.

The Anaikondan lake built during the reign of the Pandiyas in the 16th century is one among them. Read more. 

Chennai is at the epicentre of a Twitter storm. The reason is a dip in its temperature, a rare instance for the coastal city. On Monday, the minimum temperature dropped to 22°C, sparking hilarious memes online on the unusual weather.

The head of Chennai’s Regional Meteorological Centre, S Balachandran, has said that while the depression in the Bay of Bengal has been moving towards the North Tamil Nadu coast slowly, it weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area Tuesday noon. As Chennai is known for its hot and humid weather, the cool weather prompted netizens to get #ChennaiSnow trending on Twitter. Read more. 

A division bench of the Madras High on Tuesday kept in abeyance the recent orders of a single judge, which terminated the appointment of 254 assistant professors in the various colleges run by Pachaiyappa’s Trust in Chennai, Kanchipuram, and Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.

The bench of Justices Paresh Upadhyay and D Bharatha Chakravarthy granted the injunction while admitting the appeals preferred by the aggrieved assistant professors. The judges pointed out that the inquiry conducted by Justice Shanmugam Commission revealed there were some irregularities in the award of weightage marks in respect of 150 assistant professors alone.

The single judge order declaring the appointments of all the 254 assistant professors as null and void, cannot be accepted. Read more. 

The Madras High Court has refused to quash a FIR against a former Vice Chancellor of Coimbatore-based Bharathiar University who is facing proceedings in a graft case pertaining to appointment of teachers.

Justice M Nirmal Kumar said investigation is in progress in the matter and so far materials collected by way of statement and documents confirmed the conspiracy between each of the accused in the entire process of selection and appointment of Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Professors.

Dr A Ganapathi, the former VC of the varsity located in Coimbatore, had moved the court seeking to quash the First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Tiruppur. Read more. 

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