Chennai:
Madras High Court proceedings were
disrupted on Thursday morning after a group of about 20 advocates demanding
Tamil be made official language of the court laid siege to the Chief Justice’s
court hall on Thursday.
The incident happened when the first
bench of Acting Chief Justice Satish K Agnihotri and Justice M M Sundresh was
hearing the mentioned matters at 10.30am. Eyewitnesses said the advocates sporting
black cloths around their mouth stormed into the court hall raising slogans. The
protest lasted for nearly an hour.
Justice Agnihotri urged the
advocates to maintain decorum. Later the judges retired to their chambers.
Interestingly, this also comes in the
wake of fast by a section of advocates for more than a week demanding
withdrawal of an administrative order issued by the high court administration
in 1994 disallowing Tamil for arguments and judgments.
During the melee arguments also broke
out between senior advocate G Rajagopalan and the agitating group as the former
took exception to court proceedings being disrupted. Special government pleader
I S Inbathurai and others too sprang in the support of Rajagopalan.
R C Paul Kanagaraj, president of
Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) placated the demonstrators. He said
that the court required a few days to discuss the issue among judges, some of
them sitting in Madurai bench.
Meanwhile, social activist Traffic K R Ramasamy created a
stir when he protested near the chief
justice’s chambers demanding action against the advocates who disrupted court
proceedings. He was led away by police personnel on duty.
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