Remarks on judiciary: Petition against MK, Veerasamy dismissed

Chennai, Feb 13 (UNI) The Madras High Court today dismissed a Quo Warranto petition seeking to remove Tamil Nadu Electricty Minister Arcot N Veerasamy and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for their alleged critical remarks against the judiciary after the former submitted his speech never intended to denigrate the judiciary.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Mr Justice K Chandru dismissed the petition as not maintainable in view of the clarifications given by Mr Veerasamy that his speech delivered during a marriage last week never intended to denigrade the judiciary or to be intimidatory.

The petition was filed by ''Traffic'' Ramasamy seeking to show cause under what capacity Mr Veerasamy and Mr Karunanidhi holding their posts and to remove them for allegedly castigating the judiciary.

While dismissing the petition, the Bench orally observed they did not want any further confrontation on the issue.

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