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2020 Supreme(Mad) 415

A.P.SAHI, SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD
Union of India, Rep. by the Secretary to Government, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi – Appellant
Versus
K. Lakshminarayanan – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellants:Aman Lekhi, Addl. Solicitor General assisted by Ujjwal Sinha, Mehak Huria, K. Srinivasa Murthy, A.L. Somayaji, Senior Counsel assisted by V. Chandrasekaran, Arvind P. Datar, Senior Counsel assisted by Rahul Unnikrishnan, V. Chandrasekaran, Advocates. For the Respondents:G. Masilamani, V.T. Gopalan, Om Prakash, Sr. Counsels, assisted by R. Saravanan, P. Dinesh Kumar, Vardhaman Jain, Advocates, A. Gandhiraj, Government Pleader (Pondy) assisted by D. Ravichander, Addl. Government Pleader (Pondy).

JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeals under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 30.4.2019 passed in W.P.No.28890 of 2017 by the learned Single Judge.)

A.P. Sahi, CJ.

1. A gubernatorial dispute is the focal point of this controversy that led to the filing of a writ petition by the first respondent after a communication dated 27.1.2017 was delivered by the fourth respondent to the Central Government, addressed to the Home Minister, with a copy of the same to the Prime Minister of the country. The communication expressed a painful inharmonious feeling that was almost desperate in content and arose out of an understanding that the communication reflected a disrespectful attitude towards Her Excellency, the Lieutenant Governor and Administrator of Puducherry. It almost indicated a constitutional crisis, where the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry felt it would be no longer possible for her to discharge the duties of her office with the resources at her command. Her communication narrated as if the edifice of the Constitution might be ruined on account of disregard to mutual res










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