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AIADMK seeks action against 2 top bureaucrats for contempt of court
The New Indian Express Vellore
|August 05, 2025
Moves HC against launch of health scheme carrying CM's name despite interim ban
AIADMK, the principal opposition party, on Monday moved a contempt of court petition, seeking the Madras High Court to punish two senior bureaucrats of Tamil Nadu for launching the "Nalam Kaakum Stalin" scheme, carrying chief minister's name, and thereby disobeying the interim orders of the court that cited Supreme Court's guidelines to restrain the use of names of living personalities in government schemes.
The contempt petition was moved by AIADMK's Rajya Sabha member and former law minister C Ve Shanmugam. It was on his public interest litigation petition that the court had pronounced the interim orders on Thursday.
While the contempt petition is yet to come up for hearing, the first bench of the court headed by Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava on Monday adjourned the hearing of the modification petition moved by the state government on Friday regarding the interim orders issued in Shanmugam's PIL.
This story is from the August 05, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vellore.
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