SC to hear plea against relocation of tomb from Madras HC premises, orders status quo

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to appeal against the order of changing the grave of David Yale and Joseph Hynmer in the Madras Supreme Court building while ordering a status quo.

The grave in the compound of Madras Legal College (now DR Ambedkar Government Legal College), which is a part of the Supreme Court campus, is Fort St. He was declared as a protected monument through a notification in the George Newspaper.

Justice Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, the Ministry of Culture and others, the Supreme Court of Madras made an objection to the order of April of April.
“Problem notification can be returned within four weeks.” He said.

The bench asked the senior lawyer Shyam Divan, who appeared in the petition, whether he wanted to stay in the operation of the Supreme Court decision.

“I will say that the status quo will be protected only when it comes to this monument.” He said. In June 2023, a single judge of the Supreme Court allowed a petition to declare that the tomb in the college compound was not an old monument. The claim also sought a direction that emerged as a result to place the grave in a certain period of time.

In April, a section of the Supreme Court uphold the order of the single judge and rejected the appeal.

The chapter bench claimed that he had been on the college campus of Joseph Hynmer, the grave of David Yale, the son of the governor of Madras from 1687 to 1692, and his friend of Elihu Yale.

Elihu Yale, the Supreme Court, continued as a governor until 1692 and went to England in 1699 and later made a generous donation to Connecticut College in the United States.

The Supreme Court said that no material was placed before that, nor the monument was advanced to say that the monument has a historical, archaeological or artistic interest, except that Elihu Yale generously contributed to Connecticut College in the USA.