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Nanguneri Magistrate summoned to appear before HC Bench

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, APRIL 4. The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court today directed the Judicial Magistrate of Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district to appear before the court on April 11 in a criminal contempt of court application moved against him.

Though the Bench on March 28 had called for remarks from the magistrate on the application and posted the matter for today, he did not obey the order and hence was directed to be present in person.

According to the applicant, S. Sudalaiyandi (43) from Chennai, though he was married on January 27, 1989, a dispute arose between the couple recently and his wife preferred to live separately at Pathamadai in her ancestral house.

But at the instigation of her two elder brothers, she preferred a private complaint against him before the Judicial Magistrate, Nanguneri, giving a false address to satisfy that the case fell under the jurisdiction of the magistrate. The brothers, Sappani (48) and Isaikiyappan (43), were "friends to the learned judicial magistrate, Nanguneri, and during late hours both of them regularly chat at the residence of the Judicial Magistrate," the petitioner alleged.

Subsequently, a case claiming maintenance was also moved before the court and it was also ordered.

Several non-bailable warrants were issued against the petitioner on various instances.

The petitioner also alleged that though the magistrate on March 15 issued notice to the respondents in a cancellation of maintenance petition moved by him and posted the matter to March 27, he later cancelled the order at 7.45 p.m. and returned the petition on "unsustainable grounds."

He further submitted that when the Madurai Bench on March 21 had granted an interim stay of all further proceedings in the maintenance case pending before the magistrate on a petition filed by him, the magistrate on March 22 took up the case and again issued non-bailable warrants against him.

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