PIL against lockdown junked, ₹50K cost imposed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:18.06.2020
The Madras high court imposed an exemplary cost of ₹50,000 on a person after dismissing his public interest petition to declare lockdown announced by the Central and state governments as illegal.
“We are of the view that the imposition of lockdown or relaxing the lockdown is a matter to be decided by the instrumentalities of the government by taking various factors and the ground realities,” a division bench of Justice R Subbiah and Justice Krishnan Ramaswamy said on Wednesday.
“This court cannot, in exercise of its powers under the Constitution, interfere with the decision taken by the government to curb the pandemic. The contentions raised by the petitioner, therefore, deserve to be rejected as having no merits. The petitioner in our opinion has filed the petition not in any public interest but otherwise,” the bench said. The judges added, “We dismiss the plea with a cost of ₹50,000 payable by the petitioner to the Chief Justice Relief Fund.”
Petitioner M Immanvuel said the lockdown has no legal sanction and the government does not have power to implement such lockdowns.
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