"As of now, the status quo continues because of the split verdict. One of the judges accepted our plea that ED has no power to seek Police custody...It has been held by one of the judges that it is a case of illegal arrest..," said senior advocate and DMK Rajya Sabha MP Elango.
Madras High Court disposed of a petition filed for establishing a 'peacekeeping committee' at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, following incidents of violence that occurred after a 'beef fest' was organised on campus in 2017
The court said that the present case represented a classic case in which the petitioners were attempting to unlawfully remain in possession of the temple property without any legal authority.
Justice M Sundar and Justice M Nirmal Kumar's division bench referred to the Supreme Court's guiding principle which reads, "Wikipedia is based on a crowd-sourced user-generated editing model and therefore is not completely dependable in terms of academic veracity and can promote misleading information."