Full.bencn shrc order THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.VAIDYANATHAN THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.PARTHIBAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.SUNDAR W.P.Nos.41791/2006, 31071/2005, 3861/2010, 7151/2010, 7152/2010, 16751/2010, 13164/2010, 24646/2010,

[2/6, 17:04] Sekarreporter1: [2/6, 17:04] Sekarreporter1: https://twitter.com/sekarreporter1/status/1358016217202655233?s=08
[2/6, 17:04] Sekarreporter1: மனித உரிமை ஆணையத்தின் உத்தரவுகள் அரசை கட்டுப்படுத்தும் என்பதால், அவற்றை அரசு உடனடியாக அமல்படுத்த வேண்டும் என்றும் சென்னை ஐகோர்ட் மூன்று நீதிபதிகள் கொண்ட அமர்வு தீர்ப்பளித்துள்ளது.
[2/6, 17:05] Sekarreporter1: 1
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
Reserved on: 29.09.2020
Delivered on: 05 .02.2021
CORAM:
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.VAIDYANATHAN
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.PARTHIBAN
AND
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.SUNDAR
W.P.Nos.41791/2006, 31071/2005, 3861/2010, 7151/2010,
7152/2010, 16751/2010, 13164/2010, 24646/2010,
26496/2010, 28551/2010, 12823/2011, 14942/2011,
20045/2011, 20073/2011, 20883/2011, 20950/2011,
23997/2011, 28616/2011, 1870/2012, 6519/2012,
10063/2013, 19297/2013, 19562/2013, 32041/2014,
22760/2017, 25166/2017, 28604/2018, 28611/2018,
29295/2018, 29300/2018, 30709/2018, 30867/2018,
33652/2018, 7201/2019, 17071/2019, 17577/2019,
27708/2019, 35379/2019, 685/2020, 4456/2020,
4980/2020, 5139/2020, 5143 to 5147/2020 and
W.P.(MD) Nos.15492/2012,25881/2019 and 27187/2019
and Connected Writ Misc.Petitions
W.P.No.41791 of 2006:
Abdul Sathar …. Petitioner
Versus
1.The Principal Secretary to Government,
Home Department,
Fort St. George,
Chennai-600 009
[2/6, 17:05] Sekarreporter1: 3
For Petitioner .. Mr.R.Srinivas
Mr.Arun Anbumani
For Respondents .. Mr.Sankara Narayan,
Addl.Solicitor General
assisted by Ms.M.P.Jaisha,
Central Govt.Standing Counsel
Ms.Narmatha Sampath, AAG
Mr.B.Vijay, Amicus Curie
Preferatory Note
M.SUNDAR, J.
It is often said that interpretation is a journey of discovery, which is
not akin to a regular journey of discussion and dispositive reasoning which
predominantly turns on ‘construction’. Interpretation (unlike construction) is
more in the nature of determining the idea of legal meaning of a Statute.
Interpretation is a jurisprudential journey as it is the process of sifting a
statute and/or it is provisions to seek the intention of the Legislature. In this
order, we had embarked upon such a jurisprudential journey, which under
the normal circumstances should have reached its destination before the
dawn of December 2020, but that was not to be owing to the Corona virus
pandemic and consequent lock down, which is now widely and commonly
referred to as ‘Covid-19 situation’; Covid-19 was something which we did
not portend or presage when this journey commenced on 17.02.2020 and