The petitioner in Madras High Court was the councilor of the 6 th Ward of Mettur Municipality elected in the local body election held in the year 2011 as the candidate sponsored by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) .
A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Curt while hearing a petition filed by Kuldeep Chitravanshi stayed the order of the Chief Engineer to demote the junior engineers of the Public Works Department.
Referring to several technical flaws in the report, the chief engineer instructed that new excavations should not be done until the equipment is complete