The Madras Excessive Court docket on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 rejected a plea by V.Ok. Sasikala, an in depth aide of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to declare that she continues to be the interim normal secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) ever since her appointment to the submit on December 29, 2016.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Subramanian and N. Senthilkumar dismissed three attraction fits in addition to a civil revision petition filed by her in 2022 to put aside the orders handed by an Extra Metropolis Civil Court docket in Chennai which had on April 11, 2022 rejected her plaint searching for such a declaration.
Sasikala had acquired appointed as an interim normal secretary of the occasion after the demise of former Chief Minister and the then normal secretary Jayalalithaa on December 5, 2016. Coincidentally, the decision on Sasikala’s plea has been delivered precisely on the seventh demise anniversary of Jayalalithaa.
Although the judgment was initially scheduled to be delivered on Monday (December 4, 2023), it couldn’t be completed due to a vacation declared for all courts in Chennai on account of Cyclone Michaung.
After Ms. Sasikala needed to be imprisoned on February 17, 2017 on account of her conviction by the Supreme Court docket in a disproportionate property case, a factional dispute arose within the occasion resulting in the difficulty being agitated earlier than the Election Fee of India.
On September 12, 2017, the occasion’s normal council eliminated Ms. Sasikala from the submit of interim normal secretary and as a substitute appointed O. Panneerselvam and Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami because the Coordinator and Joint Coordinator respectively.
This resolution of the overall council was put to problem by her earlier than the Extra Metropolis Civil Court docket in 2017 on the bottom that the very convening of the overall council was unlawful and towards the procedures required to be adopted underneath the occasion bylaws.
In 2022, Mr. Panneerselvam, Mr. Palaniswami and one other AIADMK chief S. Semmalai took out indepedent functions to reject her plaint. On her half, she too filed an software searching for the permission of the court docket to amend sure parts of her plaint.
The Extra Metropolis Civil Court docket allowed all three functions for rejection of plaint and dismissed her software for amending the plaint. Therefore, she had approached the Excessive Court docket with three attraction fits and a civil revision petition.