Chennai:
Tamil Nadu government has yet to file counter affidavits for 3,447 cases despite setting up Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), an IT-based application to monitor cases pending against the state government department or officials.
Official sources indicated that during a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary recently, all secretaries have been urged to take effective steps to file the counter-affidavits at the earliest.
It is learnt that many a times the cases pertaining to departments have not been fed into the CCMS. The meeting has urged upon the secretaries to enter all contempt cases both pertaining to secretariat as well as department into CCMS, sources added.
The CCMS, which was created after more than 20,000 contempt of court petitions were pending against Tamil Nadu government officials in Madras High Court and Madurai Bench between the year 2010 to February 16, 2014.
Meanwhile, the state government has asked all secretaries and department heads not to make any noting on original High Court orders which are being used to appeal before the division benches.
It is learnt that Madras High Court Registry has been directed not to entertain any appeal with endorsements made on the copy of order.
This comes after an order was passed by the bench consisting of Justice K K Sasidharan and Justice P Velmurugan on February 21, 2018.
The judges in their order said that they have observed that the head of the department to whom the certified copies are dispatched by the registry tend to make endorsements on the order and the same copy is filed before the court and have directed the registry not to entertain any appeals with endorsements made on the copy of the order.
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