HC asks Kerala govt to not permit set up of latest flag posts in public locations

By Express News Service

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Monday directed the state authorities to not allow the set up of latest flag poles or posts on public locations and roads with out acquiring permission from the competent authorities.

Justice Devan Ramachandran issued the directive on a petition filed by the Mannam Sugar Mills Cooperative Limited, Panthalam searching for to take away varied flagpoles erected by varied commerce unions earlier than the gate of the sugar mill.

The courtroom stated that the tradition of placing up flag masts by influential political events resembling different associations of individuals had permeated into the society very deeply. The political and different comparable flag masts had been being put in throughout the size and breadth of the state with none respite.

“This is an extremely unfortunate situation and it prevents a complete breakdown of law because there can be no doubt that any such installation can be made on any public space or the road only after obtaining necessary permission from the Local Self Government Institution or such other competent Authority,” noticed the courtroom.

The courtroom added that not merely had been flag posts erected, the individuals who do it thereafter appeared to suppose that they had been in occupation and possession of the land on which it was and board and such different installations had been additionally made subsequent to it or together with it and this was demonstrably clear in nearly each nook and nook of the state.

The courtroom additionally directed the State authorities to conduct an audit and survey of assorted illegally erected flag poles throughout the state and furnish the courtroom info concerning the survey. The State authorities ought to file an affidavit coping with the authorized provisions in opposition to the unlawful erection of flag poles, the courtroom stated.