The Supreme Court today issued notice and ordered status quo on the Communist Party of India's challenge to the Madras High Court's directions for the removal of permanent political flagpoles from public places across Tamil Nadu.

The matter was heard by a bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta .

“ Issue notice and status quo ”, Justice Vikram Nath said.

The CPI has approached the Court against the High Court's Full Bench order of August 13. The Full Bench had declined to adjudicate the issue after noting that the Supreme Court had already dismissed an SLP filed against a March order of a Division Bench which had affirmed an earlier single bench order directing the removal of permanent flagpoles.

In its SLP, CPI has argued that the Supreme Court's earlier dismiss

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