HC stays poll violation cases against DMK MP
PTI | 09:01 PM,Jan 24,2012Madurai, Jan 22 (PTI) The Madras High Court Bench here today stayed the trial court proceedings of two cases relating to alleged election code violation filed against DMK MP Ritheesh Kumar during the assembly elections last year and the Parliament elections in 2009. Justice T Sudanthiram stayed the trial proceedings for two weeks. Police had filed a case against Ritheesh Kumar and nine others for allegedly taking a large number of people to the election office on Mar 23, 2011 in the run up to the assembly elections last year when the DMK candidate Suba Thangavelan filed his nomination papers at Tiruvadanai. The Ramanathapuram MP was also charged with providing two lorry loads of sand for a local temple during the Lok Sabha polls, in which he contested. The cases had been filed based on the complaint given by the police inspectors of Thiruvadanai and R S Mangalam (in Ramanathapuram district). The petitioner submitted that the complaint had not been given by the competent person, and said the police inspector could not give a complaint regarding election violation. Only election officials could give the complaint and hence the cases registered against him should be quashed, he contended. The Judge gave interim stay to the trial court proceedings and posted the case for hearing after two weeks.
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