MADURAI
The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday transferred to its principal seat in Chennai two writ petitions filed by Indian Bank, one seeking permission to conduct a public auction for selling granite goods that were under hypothecation but lying uncared for at the factory of PRP Exports at Therkutheru near here and the other challenging the attachment proceedings initiated by the Enforcement Directorate.
A Division Bench of Justices T.S. Sivagnanam and P. Velmurugan directed the High Court Registry to transfer the cases and tag them along with a public interest litigation in which the First Division Bench of the High Court had in 2014 appointed IAS officer U. Sagayam as Legal Commissioner to find out the sufficiency of action initiated by the State government machinery against the multi-crore granite scam in the district.
The judges said that it would be appropriate to hear the cases filed by the banks along with the PIL petition since any order passed on the present petitions would have a bearing on the outcome of that petition.
Permission
They also permitted the Enforcement Directorate to get itself impleaded as one of the parties to the case since it was represented that it had so far attached more than 1,300 properties belonging to the private granite firm.
