The Moulivakkam tragedy came about in 2014, when an 11-storey under-construction constructing on Kundrathur Main Road collapsed, killing 61 individuals and injuring many others. File {photograph}
Can a Chief Minister pursue a case against the State, requested Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on Tuesday, January 2, 2024, once they got here throughout a 2014 writ petition filed by incumbent Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin in search of a CBI probe into the Moulivakkam building collapse tragedy in Chennai.
When the almost 10-year-old case was listed for hearing after a hole of six years, advocate Richard Wilson sought a week’s time to file a Vakalatnama (authorisation given by a litigant to his lawyer) in his identify as a substitute of the current counsel on file R. Neelakandan who’s now an Additional Advocate General.
Wondering whether or not the petitioner was fascinated about pursuing the case regardless of the workplace he was holding now, the Chief Justice requested if such a course was permissible. Mr. Wilson replied that the case was filed a decade in the past when the petitioner was in the opposition and the treasurer of the DMK
The counsel added that the prayer itself had grow to be infructuous and the case needed to be closed. “But I can make that submission only after filing the Vakalat,” he mentioned and urged the courtroom to grant him a week’s time to vary the Vakalat.
Accepting his request, the judges adjourned the matter by a week to file a new Vakalatnama.
The challenge pertains to the collapse of an 11-storey under-construction constructing on Kundrathur Main Road in Moulivakkam close to Porur in Chennai on June 28, 2014. As many as 61 had been killed and 27 injured in the incident.
Then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) and likewise a Commission of Inquiry headed by retired Madras High Court choose R. Regupathy to inquire into circumstances that led to the collapse of the constructing constructed by a non-public actual property developer.
However, not glad with the SIT probe, Mr. Stalin had approached the courtroom insisting upon a CBI investigation.
