Karunanidhi death:-Madras high court provide space on Marina Beach for DMK chief’s funeral.

Madras high court on Wednesday resumed hearing on a DMK petition to allow M Karunanidhi to be buried at Chennai’s Marina Beach even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Chennai to pay his last respects to Kalaignar.

In court, the ruling AIADMK said the burial place decision was a policy issue and court cannot intervene. “Only chief ministers who died in office were allotted space at the Marina Beach,” the government sai.

The DMK said no law says only chief ministers are eligible for burial at Marina beach. “’You (the state government) have announced state mourning, why not give land for burial? There’s no prohibition under central government protocol to allot land at Marina beach for ex-chief ministers,” the DMK said.

In a special late night hearing before the first bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh and Justice S S Sundar, the counsel for DMK questioned the government’s legal ground for not allotting space for burying Karunanidhi at the Marina beach. The high court met at Ramesh’s official residence at 10.30pm and heard arguments by Tamil Nadu’s lawyer CS Vaidyanathan and DMK lawyer P Wilson.