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Veeramani POCSO case : Madras HC posts to Nov 10, two TVK Mins plea against the order allowing DMK to file Rs one cr defamatory suit

Chennai, Oct 26 (UNI) A Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday adjourned to November 10, the intra-court appeal filed by TVK Ministers Aadhav Arjuna and CTR.Nirmal Kumar against a Single Judge order granting leave for the main opposition DMK to initiate a Rs 1.01 crore defamatory suit against them and the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) IT Wing, for their remarks linking DMK to POCSO case against granite baron R.Veeramani of Gem Granites.
When their plea came up for hearing, the Bench of Justices N.Satish Kumar and G.K.Muthukumar adjourned it to November 10.
Earlier, Ms.Justice Govindarajan Thilakavathy, had on October 5, allowed the plea filed by DMK General Secretary and former Minister Duraimurugan, seeking the court's leave to sue the ministers and the TVK IT wing, overruling the defendants' objections regarding the maintainability of the case.
In the plea, the DMK accused the TVK ministers and their IT wing of orchestrating a false, defamatory campaign on social media. The TVK leaders alleged that the DMK government shielded the granite baron and had attempted to cover up the case.
Advocate General Vijay Narayan, appearing for the Ministers, argued that a prior notice should have been issued before initiating proceedings against them. Since no such notice had been served, the petition was not maintainable, while Senior counsel J.Ravindran, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that Nirmal Kumar and Aadhav Arjuna had been impleaded in the case in their individual capacities and not in their capacity as ministers.
The petition also sought a direction to file the suit against X Corp, Meta Platforms, and YouTube, since a plea had been made to take down the false and defamatory posts, but those multinational corporations were located outside the jurisdiction of the High Court, along with the two Ministers and the TVK IT Wing.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the judge had reserved orders without specifying a date after permitting the DMK to initiate defamation proceedings against the two Ministers and the TVK IT Wing.
Challenging this, the two Ministers filed an intra-court appeal before the Division Bench.
During the earlier hearing, the Single Judge orally directed both the Ministers and the DMK not to politicise the issue as it could dilute the investigation and may pave the way for the accused to escape from the clutches of law. “It is about the lives of minor girl children. The issue is very sensitive and all of us have a social responsibility,” the judge remarked.
In its plea, the DMK said the First Information Report (FIR) in the case was promptly registered during its rule on October 7, 2025, immediately a day after a child rights activist had handed over a video clipping of the alleged sexual assault of a minor girl child, to the police. Thereafter, the investigation proceeded in accordance with the law on the basis of the available evidence.
Duraimurugan also made it clear that the then ruling DMK had not interfered with the investigation in any manner whatsoever, and that the party had no connection or connivance either with the named accused or anyone else connected with the alleged offence. However, the two TVK Ministers had been consistently levelling baseless charges against the DMK during their media interactions, it said.
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