NEW DELHI: Supreme Court in its order on April 11 dismissed the appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging a Madras High Court order allowing the RSS to carry out its route march in the state.

The RSS was earlier  permitted to march through several districts of the state by the Madras High Court. The Tamil Nadu government appealed this decision, and the Supreme Court has now taken up the case.

On October 2, 2022, R Karthikeyan, the joint secretary of the Sangh in Tiruvallur, filed a plea with the court seeking contempt of court against the police for refusing to grant permission for the route march. The Tamil Nadu police were then told by the Madras High Court to comply with the motion by September 30, 2022.

After the Tamil Nadu Police prohibited RSS meetings in specific sites in 2022, Sangh office bearers petitioned the Madras High Court for a contempt of court ruling. The court had given a warning that charges of contempt will be sought if the authorities ignored the order.

"Only after carefully considering all the circumstances had the court issued its orders. It claimed that no one should be permitted to disobey a court judgement and that denying permission despite court rulings appears to be an injustice "Prabhakaran, a senior counsel for RSS, said.

Elango, the attorney for the Tamil Nadu police, had claimed that the state had been forewarned of probable law and order problems as a result of the action taken against the Popular Front of India by the Central intelligence services (PFI).

The Left, the VCK, and other DMK allies have pushed the administration to refuse permission for the RSS march on numerous occasions. In response, the Tamil Nadu government formally refused permission, citing both the Union Government's ban on the PFI and the several Muslim organisations that had denounced it.

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