The Assembly Secretary and the Committee of Privileges have preferred individual writ appeals before the Madras High Court, challenging an order passed by a single judge on September 24 staying the breach of privilege proceedings initiated against DMK president M.K. Stalin and 17 other MLAs belonging to his party.
The appellants said the Assembly Secretary alone was represented before the single judge when the new writ petitions filed by the 18 MLAs were listed for admission on September 23. But the judge mistook it as though the Committee of Privileges and its chairman Pollachi V. Jayaraman were also represented before the court, they said.
Even on merits, the single judge’s order was erroneous, contrary to law, and had been passed on complete non-appreciation of facts, the appellants claimed. They said the judge ought not to have entertained the writ petitions which had…