HC declines to stay case proceedings

Actor-Vijaykanth-led-DMDK_0.jpg

Chennai: The Madras high court on Tuesday declined to stay proceedings in two defamation cases against DMDK leader Vijayakanth pending before courts in Villu­pu­ram and Dindigul districts.
The public prosecutor in Villupuram had filed a de­f­a­­mation complaint agai­nst Vijayakanth, following his alleged defamatory speech against chief minister J. Jayalalithaa at a public meeting on August 30, 2012, in Villupuram.
On August 1, 2012, in Dindigul, the public prosecutor filed a defamation complaint against Vijaya­kanth following another all­eged defamatory speech against the chief minister at a public meeting.
The courts in Villupuram and Dindigul ordered iss­u­ance of summons to Vij­a­y­a­kant for his appearance be­fore the courts on Jan­ua­ry 9. Seeking to quash these cases, Vijayakant filed two petitions in the Madras high court.
When the petitions came up for hearing, Namo Na­ra­yanan and Balaji, counsel for Vijayakanth, prayed the court to stay the proceedings pending before the Villupuram and Dindigul courts. Additional advocate general P.H. Arvind Pan­di­an vehemently opposed the plea.
Following this, Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar decli­ned to grant stay but or­de­red notice, returnable by two weeks, to the state government. Meanwhile, the judge sta­y­ed the proceedings in an­other defamation case ag­a­i­nst Vijayakanth pending be­fore the court in Cud­dalore district, besides or­d­e­ring notice to the state government.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/225231" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: &lt;a&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-7cb772485606b8aed1c33017d41740d3" value="form-7cb772485606b8aed1c33017d41740d3" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80061199" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.