Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami after being declared as the normal secretary of AIADMK, at the celebration headquarters in Chennai on March 28, 2023. In celebration, a celebration cadre adorned him with a cap and glasses, akin to the ones utilized by the celebration’s founder and late Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran.
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1. EPS made AIADMK normal secretary after inexperienced sign from Madras HC
Moments after the Madras High Court cleared the decks for Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami, who served as the interim normal secretary of AIADMK for the previous eight months, he was declared elected unopposed as the celebration’s normal secretary.
At the AIADMK headquarters in Chennai, celebration election commissioners Pollachi V. Jayaraman and Natham R. Viswanathan handed over the letter of appointment to Mr. Palaniswami who’s the celebration’s sixth normal secretary.
The declaration got here minutes after the Madras High Court, ruling in his favour, dismissed the purposes of his rival O. Panneerselvam and his supporters, in opposition to the July 11 normal council resolutions and the celebration’s normal secretary election.
After taking cost, Mr. Palaniswami visited the memorials of the celebration founder M.G. Ramachandran, and former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. In his first assertion undersigned as AIADMK’s normal secretary, he introduced that the celebration membership enrolment drive can be launched on April 5.
2. Ambasamudram custodial torture | SHRC orders probe
Taking cognizance of a report revealed in The Hindu alleging custodial torture of suspects by way of extracting their tooth utilizing reducing pliers by IPS officer Balveer Singh at Ambasamudram in Tirunelveli district, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered an investigation.
The SHRC has directed the Inspector-General of Police/Director, Investigation Wing, to submit an in depth report inside six weeks.
A day after the video statements of three of the affected males went viral on social media, Mr. Singh was positioned beneath ‘vacancy reserve’ yesterday, pending an inquiry.
3. AIADMK functionary homicide | Five together with schoolboy held
Five individuals together with a category 12 pupil have been arrested by Sembium police this morning, in reference to the homicide of a 48-year-old AIADMK functionary, Ilango, who was a resident of Vyasarpadi, late final night time.
Police investigation revealed {that a} 19-year-old key suspect and his associates have been overwhelmed up by Ilango two years in the past once they have been dancing at a musical programme held of their locality.
Having been mocked over the incident, the youth who was too younger to defend himself again then, held a grudge and hatched a plan to stab Ilango, with the assist of his associates.
4. Eight extra Sri Lankan Tamils attain Dhanushkodi shores; rely touches 233
Hit by the extreme financial disaster in Sri Lanka, eight individuals together with 4 youngsters from Killinochi in the island nation reached Dhanushkodi islet early this morning.
According to police sources, a 47-year-old man amongst them had labored as a driver in LTTE throughout the civil battle. They have been all later lodged at the Mandapam Rehabilitation Centre for Sri Lankan Tamils.
With their arrival, the complete rely of Sri Lankan Tamils who fled their nation because of the financial disaster and took refuge in Tamil Nadu rose to 233 together with an aged girl who died throughout remedy at Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai.
