Activist ‘Traffic’ K.R. Ramaswamy on Monday created a furore in the Madras High Court by complaining to Chief Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani that his PIL petition filed against construction of mausoleums in the Marina beach here was dismissed “unfairly” last week by a Division Bench led by the then Acting Chief Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh.
Making a mention before the first Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice M. Duraiswamy, the activist alleged that Justice Ramesh had forcibly obtained a memo from his counsel.
The memo was used to the effect to portray that he had no objection to laying to rest the mortal remains of DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi on the Marina beach and used it as a reason to dismiss his case. “For more than one year, I have been fighting against memorials in the Marina beach. Now, the judge simply dismissed my case without any cause by forcibly getting a memo,” he told the Bench.
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The Chief Justice asked him to air his grievances before the Registrar (Judicial) of the High Court and said that the latter would look into his complaint.