Tamil Nadu police have registered cases against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders, including party deputy general secretary and former Union minister A Raja and former state minister PK Sekar Babu, over alleged derogatory remarks made by them against Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and his cabinet colleague CTR Nirmal Kumar, officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
A similar case against DMK MLA Vasantham Karthikeyan over his comments against the chief minister was also filed by the Kallakurichi police. But this government is only working against the DMK people when our Leader of Opposition (Udhayanidhi Stalin) have asked that so many crimes have happened, so many custodial deaths have happened, so many attacks on women were made they (TVK government) did not have any answer. So, whatever LoP spoke in the assembly, they have no answer, and they have not arrested anybody or filed a case against anybody to ensure that criminals are punished. But they will file case against Raja, and they have also filed cases against LoP and they will do all those things.”
On cases filed against former HR and CE minister P K Sekar Babu, a senior officer of North Chennai police said first information reports (FIRs) have been registered under relevant sections of BNS, including 296 (reciting an obscene song or words in or near a public place), 352 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace), 196 (1) (promoting enmity), 353 (1) (spreading false information in any medium including social media), 352 (2) (intentional speech that will break public peace) and 351 (2) (whoever threatens another person with injury to their body, reputation or property).
Cases were filed against A Raja under sections including defamatory remarks against an individual with the intention to disturb peace, inciting violence between groups, use of obscene language and acts causing disruption to public order under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), according to the police. Meanwhile, when reporters asked about the filing of cases against DMK, A Raja said, “Is this a question? if a lawsuit is filed, we just have to face it. DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan said, “As an opposition party we have the right to criticise, attack the ruling party for their mistakes. Elangovan further said, “they will continue to attack the DMK.
