The State Government has filed an appeal before the Madras High Court challenging a single Judge's order quashing the government orders relating to the merger of Tiruverumbur town panchayat with the Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.
Passing orders on a writ petition on September 21, the single Judge had said that when the matter involved a major decision of merging the town panchayat with the municipal corporation, the authorities should have been careful enough to see that statutory requirements were complied with. In the appeal, filed through the Advocate-General, A. Navaneethakrishnan, the Principal Secretary in the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, said the single Judge had erred in holding that section 461 of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act was applicable to the government while exercising the power under the Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Act.
The Judge ought to have held that the expansion of the territorial limit was in the government's domain and it could not be interfered with.
