The Hindu 16.06.2010
Plea seeks to disqualify Maduravoyal Municipal Chairman, councillor
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court ordered notice to the State government on a public interest litigation petition seeking to disqualify the Maduravoyal Municipal Chairman and a ward councillor in connection with distribution of fake identity cards under the Chief Minister’s Insurance Scheme.
A bench comprising Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam ordered notice to Alapakkam G.Shanmugam, chairman, and Balaji, councillor of ward 11, returnable in three weeks.
The Government Pleader took notice on behalf of the State government represented by the Chief Secretary, the Health Secretary and two others.
The petitioner, G. Krishnamurthy, a resident of Porur, alleged that the chairman and ward councillor of the municipality were distributing bogus ID cards with the symbol of the ruling party that would not serve the purpose for which the cards were intended. He said that with the circulation of such cards in and around the Maduravoyal Assembly constituency, the public had lost their chance of enrolling their names in the scheme.
He also sought a direction to the Tiruvallur Collector to conduct an inquiry.
