00:00Chief Minister Vijay has written to the Prime Minister for a top court bench in Chennai.
00:07That's the demand that he has raised.
00:09So he has urged Prime Minister Modi for a Supreme Court bench in Chennai.
00:13He wants justice closer to home.
00:16So he has urged the Prime Minister to push for a Supreme Court bench in Chennai.
00:21So that's the latest that we are learning where Chief Minister Vijay is now urging the Prime Minister
00:25for a Supreme Court bench to be set up in Chennai itself.
00:29My colleague Pramod Madhav continues to stay with us with more details on this.
00:32Pramod, what is the reason, what exactly has prompted the Chief Minister
00:38to urge the Prime Minister for a top court bench in Chennai?
00:43One thing is very certain, this is not a kind of a request or a demand that it has received.
00:48It's been from 1980s and particularly both the DNP and ADMP government have insisted on this particular situation.
00:54At the present, Chief Minister Sayyid is also once again reiterating that having one top court tattoo in Delhi
01:01is causing a lot of issues for the plaintiffs or the petitioners who have to travel all the way from
01:06Chennai
01:07or from the southern states all the way back to Delhi and the time constraint and such.
01:11So this is where the Chief Minister has said that, you know, I have urged the Prime Minister to intervene
01:15and get, you know, a separate branch of the Supreme Court in Tamil Nadu or at that particular location
01:21so that the division can be easy for the people of the southern states to move towards
01:25and either basically they can actually save the time and money.
01:28This is how the Chief Minister Vijay has also said that.
01:31However, he also claims there are constitutional possibilities for that and he has highlighted that as well.
01:35Very importantly, the Chief Minister said that since 1980s, this request has been placed
01:40and even in 2007, the Chief Justice Conference, even though it was not accepted,
01:46he wants the Prime Minister to once again intervene and get a branch of the Supreme Court in Tamil Nadu.
01:53All right, Ramud, thank you for those details.
01:55So geographical barriers and also the travel costs have been cited as the reason behind this demand
02:01where Chief Minister Vijay is urging Prime Minister to push for a Supreme Court bench in Chennai itself
02:06so that justice is closer to home, so that people do not have to travel all the way from Tamil
02:12Nadu to the national capital.
