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Mohamed Imranullah S.
MADURAI: K. Rethinathammal, a nonagenarian from Pudukottai, was a victim of official apathy. She was denied family pension, raising doubts on the validity of her marriage with a village headman way back in 1922. Strangely, M. Aandy, a sexagenarian from Tirunelveli, was demoted in 2004, five years after his retirement from the Public Works Department in 1999 on the ground that he was mistakenly promoted during his service. He was also asked to repay the excess salary paid to him. Blood was not thicker than water for nine-year-old orphan M. Ramya (name changed) of Madurai as she preferred to live with her aged neighbours. The girl was averse to living with her relatives, who were keen on bringing up the girl with the emoluments due to her deceased mother, a government employee. The Nagapattinam fishermen who lost their ‘patti’ nets (used to fish within 100 metres from the shore) in the 2004-tsunami were refused compensation. They claimed that the Government awarded damages only to losers of ‘gill’ nets used by affluent fishermen in catamarans and ‘vallams.’ Likewise, workers under the Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (food-for-work programme) in Madurai district in 2005 were not given cash payment on time. Out of the daily wage of Rs.54, they were entitled for Rs. 28.25 in cash and five kg of ration rice at Rs.5.65 a kg. All these and many more are among scores of people who found a messiah in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. It solved their grievances and issued positive directions in every case. At the doorstep
Since its establishment on July 24, 2004, the Bench may not have created a boom in the real estate sector or it may not have pushed Madurai to the forefront of economic development as expected. But it has definitely brought justice to the doorstep of the poor and the needy, according to M. Ajmal Khan, president, Madurai Bench High Court Advocates’ Association.
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