One-liner: The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed as not maintainable a PIL petition challenging the organisational polls of the AIADMK, where incumbents O Panneerselvam and K Palaniswami were elected unopposed as Coordinator and Joint Coordinator, respectively.
Bench rejects plea: The first bench rejected the plea from J Jayachandran of Arsanapatti in Hosur in the state.
Manhandled: In his petition, Jayachandran, who was manhandled when he went to the party headquarters at Royapettah in Chennai to obtain nomination papers to contest in the elections on Dec 4, cited the ECI as the first respondent.
Petition dismissed: The bench dismissed the petition in limine (at the outset) after holding it was not maintainable.
Source: PTI