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Not opposed to all names: Jayalalithaa

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI JULY 29. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today clarified that the State Government had not opposed the proposals for the appointment of all the 11 candidates in toto as judges to the Madras High Court.

In a statement issued in response to reports in a section of the press, she said the Government had accepted the proposals of the High Court in respect of certain candidates and placed on record its reservations regarding certain other candidates ``on valid grounds with documentary proof ".

``The news item as projected in the press that the State Government has rejected the proposal in toto is incorrect and it does not reflect the true state of affairs,'' she said.

The issue regarding the appointment of judges should be viewed in ``strict confidence'' and it might not be in the public interest to reveal anything in this regard.

``The State Government is compelled to give this clarification to avoid any unnecessary controversy and misgivings over the matter,'' she added.

In this context, Ms. Jayalalithaa pointed out that as per the dictum pronounced in the `Supreme Court Advocates-on-record Association' case as reported in the AIR 1994 Supreme Court, and as per the view expressed in the Presidential Reference and as decided on October 28, 1998 by a nine-member Bench of the Supreme Court and as reported in the AIR 1999 Supreme Court, the State Government had a ``definite role'' in analysing the proposals of the High Court.

``The views of the State Government and the proposals of the High Court will be studied by the Ministry of Law, the Union of India, and finally by the Supreme Court of India,'' she said.

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