more-inThe Madras High Court on Thursday refused to quash a case of sedition booked by the Salem city police in September this year against T.T.V. Dhinakaran, sidelined leader of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, his supporter V. Pugalendhi of Karnataka State unit of the party and 15 others. “It is seen that in the pamphlets there is a call to the general public to demonstrate and agitate against the Central Government as well as State Government. “On a reading of the printed pamphlets/complaint, all the ingredients of Section124-A and 500 (defamation) of IPC have been made out,” Mr. Justice Ramesh added. “Since the pamphlets attempt to incite the public to protest and demonstrate, the first respondent police were well within the powers to register the complaint in accordance with the directions of the honourable Supreme Court,” the judge added.

Source: The Hindu November 09, 2017 19:37 UTC