Supreme Courtroom transfers CPI(M)’s plea towards elimination of flagpoles to a different Bench

The Supreme Courtroom on Monday (November 3, 2025) transferred to a different Bench a plea filed by the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist) difficult the Madras Excessive Courtroom’s order for the elimination of everlasting flagpoles of political events from public locations in Tamil Nadu.

A Bench comprising Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi famous {that a} comparable petition was heard by a Bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath.

“Listing this matter earlier than the coordinate Bench consisting of Justice Vikram Nath and if wanted, acceptable orders could also be taken from the Chief Justice of India,” the Bench mentioned.

The Madras Excessive Courtroom had earlier upheld the order handed by a single Bench of the courtroom directing all political events and neighborhood and non secular organizations to take away inside 12 weeks everlasting flagpoles erected by them at public locations throughout Tamil Nadu.

The CPI(M), in its plea earlier than the Excessive Courtroom, had contended that it had been the revolutionary vanguard of the working class within the nation and it was essential each for the get together in addition to its affiliated physique, Heart of Indian Commerce Unions, to stay related with the plenty by the pictorial representations on their flags.

The plea mentioned the Excessive Courtroom’s sweeping instructions amounted to “impermissible judicial laws” and resulted within the violation of elementary rights.