Saturday, April 12, 2014

Madras High Court appoints observer to oversee film producers meeting

Chennai:
Madras High Court has appointed a former judge to oversee the proceedings of Extraordinary General Body meeting of Tamil Film Producers Council to be conducted on May 11.
This comes after Tamil film Producers Council moved the bench of Justice M Jaichandren and Justice M Venugopal to set aside the earlier order passed by a single judge restraining the conduct of extraordinary general body meeting.
The judges after hearing the counsels of the respondents, S Thanu of V Creations, A N Pavithran of ARS International, M M Thaha of Royal Movies and N G Murugesh set aside the earlier order to conduct extraordinary general body meeting based on the requisition made by regular producer members to consider ‘No Confidence’ motion proposed to be moved by the members by placing the same in the agenda of the meeting.
The judges appointed former Madras High Court judge P Shanmugam as ‘observer’ of the meeting and take appropriate steps to ensure that the proceedings of extraordinary general body meeting takes place in a peaceful and smooth manner.
The judges stated that the observer will ensure that the resolution relating to the ‘No confidence Motion’ is decided by way of voting by secret ballot as per regulations and the result will be announced by the observer.
The remuneration of the observer is fixed at Rs two lakh and it shall be paid by Tamil Film Producers’ Council.
The report relating to the proceedings shall be filed by the observer before the court within a period of 10 days after the conclusion of the meeting.

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