HC rejects HMK plea for black flag stir against Vijayan

Vijayan is scheduled to participate in a function to unveil the statue of late DMK chief M Karunanidhi at the party headquarters here in which UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will also take part.

When the petition by Arjun Sampath, leader of Hindu Makkal Katchi, came up before Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, the government counsel submitted that the demonstration is against the Supreme Court order which allowed women of all age groups to enter the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala and would create law and order problems. Hence, permission for the demonstration was rejected by the city police commissioner, the counsel said.

The HMK approached the court after Sampath’s application to stage black flag protests against the Kerala chief minister was rejected by the police commissioner.