All government respondents have formally filed their representations through senior counsels in the Chennai writ petition case against foreign law firms when the matter was listed for hearing on 9 June after the end of one month of Madras High Court vacations on 7 June.
The matter came up before the first bench comprising of the acting chief justice Elipe Dharma Rao and justice T S Sivagnanam placed as item number 40 on the cause list.
Senior government counsel P Chandrasekaran was representing respondents number one to six, which are the various government departments of law, home affairs, finance, external affairs and income tax and the Reserve Bank of India.
Senior counsels K Venkatakrishnan and S Y Masood filed to defend respondent number seven and eight, which are the Bar Council of India and the State Bar Council of Tamil Nadu respectively.
At the procedural hearing at 1 pm on Wednesday 9 June the respondents' counsels sought four weeks to submit their written replies before the court after registering appearance and filing their Vakalatnamas (authorisation letter).
Advocates S R Ezhilarasan and Karthikeyan who assist senior counsel A R L Sundersan appeared for the petitioner A K Balaji.
The Tamil Nadu’s Women Lawyers Association, which had earlier joined as petitioner through a separate application, was represented by its president D Prasanna and advocate V Alamelu.
As previously reported on Legally India, the bar association of the Madras High Court was also planning to be impleaded as one of the petitioners.
The public interest litigation (PIL) has been bogged down by court delays and has not made much progress since it was originally filed on 18 March this year when Government respondents were issued notices.
The named foreign law firms and the sole-named LPO will be issued notices subsequent to and dependent on the first eight respondents' written submissions.
Chennai writ petition: Court holidays over, Gov't respondents to file replies in 4 weeks
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You would do well to remember 1971. If the India can still claim legitimacy for the 1971 war to save Bengali population of East Pakistan from Linguistic oppression, why don't the same standards apply to Tamils? I see standards applied by the Indian government are extremely different when the south is concerned.
This is not to support the means of LTTE or ignore their role in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination or to say that foreign firms should not come in. I just strongly detest your regionalistic comment.
If you are a fan of Aryan supremacy, sorry dude you were born in the wrong era.
So, please refrain from regionalistic comments against Chennai, the south or any other region. If you are so narrow in outlook, you are just not suited for India.
The isolated actions of a few misguided [...] and the incoherent and poorly concocted PIL filed in Chennai cannot in any way detract from the great history of the Madras Bar and it does not deserve to be put down the way you have done on your post.
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Shows how warped your knowledge of history is, conditioned no doubt by the influence of fanatics like Periyar and Karunanidhi. The Bangladeshis were not a suicide-bombing terrorist cult which used child soldiers. As for your accusations about being an Aryan supremacist, remember that it was Periyar who wanted a separate country called Dravidistan during partition. It was he who castigated North Indians as "Aryan invaders" who suppressed the "black" Dravidians. Today, lighter-skinned people still face discrimination in Tamil Nadu.
beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article454362.ece
Iam sorry to find stone throwinh LTTE PRO LAWERS WORDS.rEAL FACT THE LAWERS ATTACKED BY ROWDIES AND POLICE ON THE GOVERNMENT WISHES WHICH DOES CARE TO DEMOLISH TAMIL INDENTY FROM THE WORLD AND LAWERS HAS TO DEFEND THEIR LIVES ONLY WITH STONES AND DEMOCRACY IS TO THIS EXTENT.ANY ONE TALK ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF TAMIL AND DEFEND THEM THEM EVEN BY WORDS WILL BE ATTACKED LIKE THIS ONLY.GOVT ATTROCITIES NOT SPARED THE HIGH COURT JUDGE ALSO.
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