FB 579:High Court sends frivolous plea on Jaya to shredder:- According to the petitioner, as many as nine cases were pending against Jayalalithaa. Sharing dais with an accused person by the judges of the High and the Highest Judiciary in India would tend to give a wrong message or impression to the subordinate judiciary and affect the faith and confidence of the public in the judiciary. It would also go against the ‘restatement of values of judicial life (code of conduct)’ adopted at the CJ’s conference in December, 1999 and set a bad precedent. This might result in the judges becoming biased, the petitioner contended. .................The Madras High Court has rejected a public interest writ petition from an advocate seeking to restrain Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa from participating in the function organised by the TN State Legal Services Authority and the Chennai District Legal Services Authority of the High Court. The function, to mark the inauguration of the Alternative Disputes Resolution Centre and to lay the foundation stone for construction of the administrative block of the High Court at the Image auditorium in MRC Nagar on Tuesday (August 20), will be attended by the Chief Justice of India and other High Court and Supreme Court judges. “It is a frivolous petition filed for publicity,” the first bench of Acting Chief Justice RK Agrawal and Justice M Sathyanarayanan said on Monday. It was dismissing, in limine, a PIL from advocate V Arun, who had held various posts including the Additional Government Pleader during the previous DMK regime. The petition sought to restrain the authorities from permitting any of the accused persons, whose cases were pending before the lower courts or the High Court, to attend the function. According to the petitioner, as many as nine cases were pending against Jayalalithaa. Sharing dais with an accused person by the judges of the High and the Highest Judiciary in India would tend to give a wrong message or impression to the subordinate judiciary and affect the faith and confidence of the public in the judiciary. It would also go against the ‘restatement of values of judicial life (code of conduct)’ adopted at the CJ’s conference in December, 1999 and set a bad precedent. This might result in the judges becoming biased, the petitioner contended. Dismissing the petition, the bench pointed out that at the time of appointment and swearing in office, the judges undertook the oath to the effect that they would act without any fear or favour. The judges of the High Court and the Supreme Court, as also the State Chief Minister, were constitutional authorities. newindianexpress/cities/chennai/High-Court-sends-frivolous-plea-on-Jaya-to-shredder/2013/08/20/article1742674.ece
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