Major blow to TN govt! Madras HC directs state Police to allow RSS to hold route march on November 6

Chennai, September 30: The Madras High Court, on Friday, directed Tamil Nadu Police to grant permission to the RSS to organise route march on November 6. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan was hearing a contempt of court petition by RSS' Tiruvallur joint secretary R Karthikeyan against the police for denying permission to the route march on October 2.

 

The high court has also made it clear that authorities would face contempt action if they violate the order. The Tamil Nadu government earlier denied permission to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for holding a ‘route march’ on October 2, citing law and order issues.

 

The RSS issued a notice to top state government officials, including Home Secretary over the Tiruvallur police rejecting its plea for permission to hold the march, despite a Madras High Court order in its favour.

 

On September 22, the Madras HC’s single judge directed the police to grant permission to the RSS events across the state.

 

The right-wing organisation issued the legal notice to the State Home Secretary Phanindra Reddy, DGP C Sylendra Babu, local SP and the town police inspector, asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for disobeying the court order.

 

In his legal notice, RSS advocate B Rabu Manohar stated that in view of the order dated September 22 of Justice G K Ilanthiraiyan, none of the four had any authority to deny permission or impose any new condition other than the ones imposed by the High Court, for the event.

 

 

 

"Hence, it is the duty cast upon the police to give adequate protection, enabling the successful completion of the mission without acting otherwise. The rejection order passed by the inspector (attached to Tiruvallur town police station) is ex facie illegal and contemptuous, as the three are parties before the High Court and are duty bound to ensure strict compliance of the order, failure of which would amount to committing contempt," the notice said.

 

Manohar called upon the four authorities to “unconditionally” withdraw the rejection order and grant permission to take out the route march and hold a public meeting on October 2.K'taka education dept suspends govt school headmaster Abdul Munaf for organising a contest on Prophet .

 

In a major development, the Karnataka educated department has suspended the headmaster of govt high school after he allegedly organing an essay competition on Prophet Muhammad. Abdul Munaf Bijapur is the name of the Headmaster. The incident occurred in Nagavi's government high school.

 

As per the reports, he had allegedly distributed books on Prophet and organised an essay competition on Prophet Muhammad, despite having no such directive from the state govt. The news broke come to light after the Hindu organisation Sri Rama Sene protested against the headmaster.

 

After which, the Basvaraj Bommai-led government launched an investigation into the matter. A complaint was also lodged in the matter.

 

During the investigation, it came to light that the headmaster had organised an essay contest after providing a book on Prophet Muhammad to 43 students in class 8 without telling other educators or the department. Headmaster Abdul Munaf purportedly gave books to kids and organised the essay competition with a cash award of Rs 5,000.

Following this additional Commissioner of Public Instruction, Sidramappa S. Biradar suspended Abdul Munaf Bijapur, headmaster of the government high school in Nagavi, Gadag taluk.