The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea filed by a man who claims to be the ‘Prime Minister’ of an international government of Tamil Eelam, seeking hearing in the case related to outlawing the LTTE. After a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta showed reluctance to consider the plea, counsel for petitioner Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran withdrew the plea. Rudrakumaran was born in Sri Lanka and is now a resident of America. He had challenged the October 2024 order of the Delhi High Court, which had rejected his plea to be impleaded in the proceedings before the Unlawful Activities Tribunal.
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The tribunal was constituted in June 2024 under the Unlawful Activities Act, 1967 to declare the LTTE an unlawful organisation.Rudrakumaran had challenged the tribunal’s September 11, 2024 order in the high court, which had dismissed his plea seeking trial in LTTE-related proceedings. During the hearing, Rudrakumaran’s lawyer told the Supreme Court that the petitioner is the representative Prime Minister of the Tamil government-in-exile. His lawyer said the question is whether a concerned party, who has important information to give to the tribunal, should be prevented from giving the information merely on the ground that he is a foreign national.
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The bench said that the High Court has found that the petitioner is not a member of the LTTE. The lawyer argued that the notification declaring the LTTE an unlawful organization states that the ideology of a separate homeland, Tamil Eelam, for Tamils in Sri Lanka is unlawful.