Supreme Court gives green signal to RSS Route March in Tamil Nadu

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dismissed the Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government’s appeal against a Madras high court order allowing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) route marches in the state.

The Madras High Court order allowing the RSS route march in the state was upheld by a bench of justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal.

The top court dismissed the Tamil Nadu government’s appeal against the Madras HC order, saying, “Therefore, it is not possible for us to find fault with the order passed by the Judge either in the main writ petitions or in the review applications.”

The Apex court added, “Hence all the special leave petitions are liable to be dismissed.” The Supreme Court noted that the main objection raised by the State before the High Court was that following the imposition of a ban order on another organisation, law and order problems arose in certain areas, leading to the filing of several cases.

The specifics of those cases are provided in the memorandum of grounds for special leave petition.

“But the Chart provided by the State Government shows that the members of the respondent organization were the victims in many of those cases and that they were not the perpetrators,” the SC said.