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Setu Row: Supreme Court stays TN bandh

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Posted: Sep 30, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST

New Delhi, September 30: Ruling DMK front in Tamil Nadu suffered a major setback with the Supreme Court restraining them from going ahead with the state-wide bandh on the Sethusamudram project issue.

Holding a rare sitting on a Sunday, a bench of Acting Chief Justice B N Aggrawal and P P Naolekar ordered that the DMK and its allies shall not go ahead with the bandh either on October one or any other date, as the bandh per se was illegal and unconstitutional in view of the apex court's earlier ruling on the validity of ‘bandhs.’

The apex court passed the direction on an ‘urgent application’ filed by the opposition AIADMK along with its special leave petition seeking an injunction against the bandh.

The three-hours arguments that preceded the direction was laced with scathing and stinging remarks from the bench which minced no words in expressing its strong displeasure on the very concept of bandh and the perceived defiance of law by the citizens in the country, not to mention the political parties.

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