The Kancheepuram district police on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) accused its Principal District and Sessions Judge Pa.U. Chemmal of having passed an order to remand a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in judicial custody due to a personal dispute between the judge and his former Personal Security Officer (PSO).
Appearing before Justice N. Sathish Kumar of the Madras High Court, Additional Public Prosecutor K.M.D. Muhilan obtained permission to hear, on the same day, an urgent petition to be moved by the police challenging the remand order passed by the district judge on Monday (September 8).
The APP told the High Court that the former PSO’s father-in-law owned a bakery. There was a dispute between the bakery owner and a customer over the quality of a product purchased by the latter, and it led to the lodging of police complaints by both parties in July 2025.
The police had received the complaints and issued Community Service Register (CSR) numbers on the basis of those two complaints, but subsequently closed both CSRs as the complainants had decided to settle the dispute among themselves without precipitating the matter any further.
“In the interregnum, there is some personal dispute between the PSO and the learned district judge. The PSO seems to have written some complaint against the judicial officer. Therefore, the judge decided to take suo motu action in the complaint registered against the PSO’s father-in-law,” the APP said.
