ADVOCATE R. KARUNANIDHI, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court

  The Information was obtained by a lawyer based in Madurai under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The Hindu: Madurai: Wednesday, April 29, 2015.   Information obtained by a lawyer based in Madurai under the Right to Information Act, 2005 has revealed how Lok Adalats are turning out to be more of an exercise aimed at projecting fancy figures of disposal instead of being an effective alternative mechanism to redress grievances.   The information obtained by R. Karunanidhi from the Additional Superintendent-cum-Public Information Officer of the Central Prison in Salem states that 416 prisoners involved in petty cases were released on payment of fine during a Lok Adalat conducted in the prison on September 7.   However, answering a series of pointed questions posed by the lawyer, the PIO said that of those who were released, 283 were arrested and lodged in the prison on September 6, a day before the Lok Adalat, and 109 were arrested, lodged an...

  SANCTION FOR PROSECUTION UNDER VARIOUS ACTS (Reported in 2015 (2) MLJ (Crl) Page 45) -       R. KARUNANIDHI, Advocate                                                    (Madurai Bench of Madras High Court) This Essay’s endeavor is to discuss sanction contained in the various legislations and verdicts of the different courts in India with regard to the Government Servants. Before going to discuss the legislation fundamentally we need to see whether this sanction is discriminative or not. Article 14 of the Constitution of India does not render Section 197 of Criminal Procedure Code, ultra vires as the discrimination is based upon a rational classification. Public servants have to be protected from harassment in the discha...