Chennai: Contending that dismissing a PIL of a petitioner for arguing the case in Tamil, as done by the Madras HC bench on Friday, amounted to denying justice, PMK founder Dr S. Ramadoss sought immediate intervention of Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in ensuring the declaration of Tamil as official language of the high court.
Citing the case of Jayaprakash, a petitioner, who presented his arguments in Tamil and sought the court’s direction to the state election commission to rectify the Pudukkottai electoral roll, Dr Ramadoss said the Bench comprising Justices Ramamohana Rao and S.S. Sundar, dismissed his PIL as Jayaprakash argued in Tamil.
“The Bench had stated that the case could not be argued in Tamil, as the procedure is to argue in English at the court. Or he should engage an advocate to argue his case,” Dr Ramadoss claimed.
