TN govt gives nod for DMK public meetings in 102 places

The Madras High Court was Wednesday informed that permission had been granted for the DMK's proposed state-wide public meetings against alleged corruption by the AIADMK government at 102 locations.

Making the submission before Justice R Mahadevan, Additional Advocate General P H Arvind Pandian said permission was denied in 20 places on various grounds and in five others it was not allowed as the locations were not earmarked for protests.

The government submission was made in response to a petition by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam organising secretary R S Bharathi seeking the court's direction to police officials concerned to grant permission for the public meetings titled 'Commission, Collection, Corruption of the AIADMK Government' proposed by the party across the state on October 3-4.

The petitioner had claimed that all the applications submitted by party functionaries for permission to hold the meetings had been rejected on unsustainable and untenable uniformed reasons.

Justice Mahadevan adjourned the petition to Thursday for further hearing.