A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has stayed a single judge’s order against the registration and operation of caste-based socieities in the State but made it clear that the interim stay would be applicable only with respect to South Indian Senguntha Mahajana Sangam, which had preferred a writ appeal against the order.
First Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan granted the interim stay till February 11, 2026, and ordered notices to the Inspector General of Registration (IGR), Registrar of Societies, Chennai district, and a few other officials, seeking their response to the writ appeal.
The stay was granted after advocate S.P. Chockalingam, representing the appellant, told the court that his client had filed a writ petition in connection with the election to the registered society but the single judge had gone about issuing sweeping directions unconnected to the case before him.
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“Taking into consideration the submission of learned counsel for the appellant that without there being any challenge to the name/title of the appellant society, directions have been issued wholly unconcerned with the issue that arose for consideration in the writ petition, it is directed that the impugned (under challenge) order shall remain stayed in so far as its application to the present appellant is concerned,” the Bench wrote.
