The Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu government to suspend the Raghupathi Commission of Inquiry, set up by the AIADMK government to probe alleged irregularities in construction of the new secretariat here during the DMK rule.
The court also ordered that further allotment of funds to the commission be stopped till the final disposal of the writ petitions.
Justice S M Subramaniam, who passed the order on a petition filed by the government, seeking to vacate a stay on the functioning of the commission, said, "This court is of an opinion that the commission was constituted and prolonged for an unspecified period in order to neutralise the sensitiveness of the issues involved and to divert the attention of the people."
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