Chennai, Mar 16 (PTI) The first bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday recalled an earlier order directing the Tamil Nadu government to constitute a separate Press Council for the state.

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The bench of Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy recalled the order issued by a division bench, when the matter came up before it today.

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Wondering as to how such a direction had been issued, when the subject matter and the prayer were totally different, the bench recalled the order passed by Justices N Kirubakaran (since retired) and P Velmurugan in the last week of August 2021.

While passing orders on a writ petition from one Sekaran, who claimed himself as a journalist, the bench, among other things, had directed the State government to constitute the council, to weed out fake journalists.

The writ petition had petition prayed for a direction to the Home Secretary and the DGP, CB-CID, to consider his 2019 representation to form a team and investigate against the report conveying fallacious investigation data on idol theft submitted by the then Idol Wing Special Officer A G Pon Manickavel (since retired).

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