Chennai:
Six hundred and fifty personnel of Central Industrial Security Force ( CISF) are likely to monitor the Madras High Court campus in three shifts from November 16 once the court reopens after Deepavali vacation.
The first bench comprising of Chief Justice S K Kaul and T S Sivagnanam also ordered the state government to deposit an amount of Rs 16.60 crore within one as asked by the Central government to deploy central Industrial Security force.
“Necessary arrangements has to be made by the Central Government for deployment of CISF within a week thereafter, ” said the judges.
“We make it clear that the new security system should be operational when the court opens after the recess on November 16,” said the Chief Justice.
The order was passed after stiff opposition from the state government to deploy Central forces who stated that this would result in jurisdictional issues. Interestingly, the advocate general sought two weeks time but the court turned it down.
“We note with a deep sense of regret that games are being played on a sensitive issue like the security of the court. We had taken note of the stand of the state and passed the detailed order on October 12, 2015,” said the Chief justice.
“The state government fails to realise that the situation we are faced with today is a consequence of the history of the last six years where numerous incidents have occurred when the state police has not been able to control the situation,” the chief justice said.
Expressing anguish that the issue is unnecessarily made into more of an ego issue with political overtures rather than look into the larger canvass of security requirements, the judge said that there had been two episodes of bomb hoax where clocks were placed in certain areas and then only detected.
Kaul also highlighted how the banners by advocates went undetected as police took no measures to stop its entry into the premises.
Interestingly, the deployment of Central Reserve Police Force or Border Security Force could not happen as CRPF and BSF are presently overstretched in sensitive area of Jammu and Kashmir and also due to deployment in left wing extremism affected states and North-East in meeting requirements of national security. This also comes when the CRPF personnel made sudden appearance in the High Court by mapping out the strategic locations inside the High Court.
The Chief Justice was very harsh on the state government stance that no central force should be deployed in the Madras High Court campus stating that “as far as state is concerned the matter is back to square one.”
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