Madras High Court Closes Contempt Case Related To River Linking Project
NDTV
Holding that no case is made out for initiating contempt proceedings, the Madras High Court closed the petition that sought to punish the then Chief Secretary.
There is no willful disobedience of an order passed in 2015 with regard to implementation of Thamirabarani-Karumeniyar-Nambiar river linking project, the Madras High Court on Tuesday said and closed a contempt of court application filed in 2017 by the then DMK MLA P Appavu.
Mr Appavu is currently the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Holding that no case is made out for initiating contempt proceedings, the first bench of Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy closed the petition, which sought to punish the then Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan.
The contempt petition was filed in 2017 alleging the state government had committed 'willful disobedience' of the court order passed in 2015 on the time bound implementation of the third and fourth phase of project to take water to Radhapuram in Tirunelveli district and its surrounding areas.
