As per report the madras high court on friday dismissed a case filed against actor-politician rajinikanth for his comments about a rally led by social reformer and Dravida Kazhagam (DK) founder EV Ramaswamy popularly known as Periyar. Meanwhile the case was filed by the Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam (DVK).While hearing the case, the court wondered why the petitioner had approached it within 15 days of lodging a police complaint.
Furthermore as per usual norms, a petitioner goes to the police and then a local magistrate. When speaking to reporters outside his residence recently, rajinikanth showed a photocopy of an Outlook article about media censorship in tamilnadu in support of his comments and said that he will not apologise. Apparently Rajinikanth's claim has become a hotly contested debate in the state. Meanwhile an anti-superstition rally was indeed carried out by periyar and his followers in salem in 1971, the DMK and Periyarists have a different version of events. According to them, the idol was not naked and neither was it wearing a garland of chappals.
Moreover the DVK has registered a complaint with the coimbatore police against rajinikanth for defaming the DK founder and the DVK complained that Rajinikanth's statement was false and urged the police to file a case against him.
