Chennai, Mar 29:
The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed as withdrawn, the Tamil Nadu government’s appeals against the order of a single judge, quashing a GO issued by the previous AIADMK regime relating to the alleged irregularities in the construction of a new Secretariat building here.
The government order (GO) had directed handing over the files and records of Justice Regupathy Commission of Inquiry, appointed to probe the alleged irregularities in the construction of the new secretariat complex during the 2006-11 DMK regime, to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC).
Taking on record the request of the state government to permit it to withdraw the appeals, a division bench comprising Justices R Suresh Kumar and K Kumaresh Babu dismissed the appeals as withdrawn.
The bench said coming to the right of the appellant State to withdraw these Intra Court Appeals, the contention of the impleading petitioner, former AIADMK MP J Jayavardhan, opposing the said request based upon the various decisions “in our view, cannot be sustained”. The judgments relied upon by them were the judgments which arise from cases relating to a criminal trial, the bench added.
