The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday set aside the condition requiring vehicle pass for participants to attend Muruga Bakthargalin Aanmeega Maanadu to be held in Madurai on June 22.
The court was hearing an appeal preferred by M. Arasupandi of Madurai, zonal secretary of Hindu Munnani, who challenged the condition requiring vehicle pass for participants to attend the event.
Allowing the appeal, a Division Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and K. Rajasekar observed that the condition imposed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Anna Nagar range, Madurai, lacked jurisdiction.
The Assistant Commissioner could not have issued a blanket prohibitory order restraining the entry of vehicles into Madurai city without vehicle pass for the conference participants.
“We fail to understand as to how such a condition could have been imposed by the Assistant Commissioner in the first place. An Assistant Commissioner can have jurisdiction and sway only over the territorial limits and not over the entire Madurai city”, the court observed.
