Court rejects Palanivel’s appeal against ROS directive

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Former MIC president G Palanivel and three others today failed to set aside the Registrar of Societies’ (ROS) directive for the party to hold fresh elections.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal brought by Palanivel, MIC vice-presidents S Sothinathan and S Balakrishnan, and former MIC secretary-general A Prakash Rao.

With this ruling, the ROS’ directive is maintained.

Justice Aziah Ali, chairing a three-member bench, held that ROS had not acted beyond its power when giving its directive for the party to hold fresh elections.

The four are appealing against a High Court ruling on June 15,  which rejected their judicial review application to quash the ROS’ directive.

On Dec 5, ROS had officially notified the MIC that its polls for the vice-president and central working committee (CWC) seats as well as some divisional elections were null and void due to certain irregularities and ordered the party to hold fresh polls for the said seats within 90 days.

- Bernama



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