A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran issued notice to the Tamil Nadu chief secretary and others.
“Who are you to question the policy of the government? Suppose the sole member died in the tragedy, shouldn’t the government give some employment to the son or daughter?” the bench told the PIL petitioner who had challenged the state government’s order.
In a setback to the TVK government, the Madras High Court on July 27 had quashed Vijay’s order providing government jobs to relatives of people who died in a stampede in Karur last year, observing that it would open the floodgates to similar demands.A division bench comprising Justices CV Karthikeyan and R Sakthivel of the high court had held that it was not appropriate to overlook the needs of many people waiting for compassionate appointments in government departments.