Set up Supreme Court Bench in Chennai: CPI (M)

Resolution passed at party’s State conference

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has renewed the demand for setting up of a Supreme Court Bench in Chennai to benefit litigants of Southern States.

A resolution to this effect was passed at its 23rd Tamil Nadu State conference being held in Madurai.

Briefing mediapersons on Thursday, one of the party senior leaders P. Shanmugam said the Constitution has guaranteed the right to get justice for all and the need for setting up Supreme Court Benches at regional levels has been recommended by Law Commissions and Parliamentary Standing Committees.

Bar councils, lawyers associations and democratic forces have been demanding it. "Only decentralisation of power can ensure that it reached the last person," the resolution said.

Stating that litigants from southern States cannot afford huge travel expenses to go to Delhi to fight their cases in the Supreme Court, the party said that setting up of the Supreme Court Bench will provide an opportunity for the common man to get relief from the Apex Court.

The party also demanded a white paper on the memoranda of understanding signed by the previous AIADMK government on bringing foreign investment in industrial development and the number of employment opportunities created.

The State government should help the small scale industrial sector that has become sick due to pandemic-induced lockdown with assistance to sustain employment generation.