Says, the top court was already seized of connected matters and hence, the case filed in the Madras High Court should be transferred to the Supreme Court
The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday (May 21, 2025) informed the Madras High Court of having filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to transfer to the latter a public interest litigation (PIL) petition currently pending before the High Court, challenging the validity of State laws that take away the Governor’s power to appoint Vice-Chancellors.
Appearing before a summer vacation Bench of Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan, senior counsel P. Wilson, representing the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Department, said the transfer petition had been filed in view of connected cases pending before the top court.
Higher Education Secretary C. Samayamoorthy also filed a memo before the High Court, contending that the PIL petition was politically motivated as it had been filed by Kutty, alias K. Venkatachalapathy, who was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office-bearer in Tirunelveli district.