Latest News | HC Calls for Response on Plea to Restore Tomato Unloading Ground

Chennai, Nov 26 (PTI): The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority and the Market Management panel in Koyambedu wholesale market to submit their response by November 29, on a plea to restore the tomato unloading ground situated there.

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Justice R Suresh Kumar gave the direction, while passing interim orders on a writ petition from the Thanthai Periyar Tomato Traders Association, by its president A K Swaminathan.

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The petition sought to quash the October 14, 2020 order of the Chief Administrator Officer of the CMDA Market Managing Committee, which closed the site and consequently prayed for a direction to him to permit the association members to use the ground for loading and unloading tomatoes.

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