CHENNAI: Judge Pa U Chemmal, who ordered the arrest of the Kancheepuram DSP when he was the district judge there, was suspended from service by the Madras High Court’s Disciplinary Committee. The order was issued by the Registrar General of the court.

Chemmal, the then district judge of Kancheepuram, had ordered the arrest of DSP M Shankar Ganesh for allegedly failing to take action in a case filed against a policeman under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

However, the police department filed a case stating that the arrest order was issued due to a personal dispute between the district judge and Lokeswaran, who had served as the judge’s security officer, and not based on legal grounds.

The case stems from a dispute between Lokeswaran and his father-in-law, a bakery owner. The

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