HC seeks Bar’s opinion on photo identity card rule for litigants

The move is aimed at preventing impersonation while filing cases

The Madras High Court is thinking of the possibility of insisting upon litigants to submit photo identity cards along with their affidavits to prevent impersonation. The court’s Rules Committee, comprising a group of judges, has sought the opinion of all Bar associations across Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on the issue before taking a call on making necessary amendments to the existing rules. It all started when Justice G. Jayachandran of the court came across a case of impersonation in 2019. Allowing a writ petition filed in the name of K.M. Ahamadullah Badsha of Saidapet in Chennai, the judge, on September 17, 2019, directed the Kodambakkam Sub Registrar to register a property document. Then, the judge held that the reasons cited for not registering the property were not tenable.