By citing that the litigants have to travel from here to Delhi to seek justice from the apex court, he had urged the Chief Justice to set up a Supreme Court bench in Chennai. 

Duraimurugan said that the state government would hold a consultation with legal experts and plan the future move regarding this reservation.

The apex court has declared the reservation unconstitutional and violates Articles 14 to 16 of the Indian Constitution. 

While passing the order, the court has noted that there was no complaint about his conduct when he was released on parole three times.

Earlier, the Tamil Nadu Police had objected to the CBI probe into the case and approached the Supreme Court against it.

A case was filed against him in November last year and his anticipatory bail petition was dismissed by the Madras High Court on December 17, following which he had absconded to evade the apprehension. 

She will be following in the footsteps of her father ES Venkataramaiah, who was the 19th Chief Justice of India between June 1989 and December 1989. 

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the rate of sedition cases increased by 160% in recent times, while the conviction rate fell from 33.3% (2016) to 3.3% (2019). 

The news hit the headlines across the nation on Thursday, hours after the Supreme Court has come down hard on the Union government and asked why it is using the colonial law.

The dramatic decline in the conviction rate in three years has revealed the exercise of flawed booking of sedition and illegitimate use of the law on the people across the country.