On October 2, 2024, the Madras High Court annulled a charge sheet submitted against a film action choreographer ‘Kanal’ Kannan alias V. Kannan, 61, by the Chennai Central Crime Branch police in a case filed for raising a demand for destroying a statue of the rationalist and Dravidian ideologue Thanthai Periyar in front of the Sri Ranganathaswamy temple at Srirangam.
Justice G. Jayachandran implied that, ‘It is the member of Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam who has given complaint. All in all, that’s a very provocation speech where display of imagery with contempting words are directed towards people against a Hindu temple and a speaker who instigated that kind of speech cannot benefit from such instigations and claim that the petitioner has committed an offense for his reaction.’
Ending the entire set of charge-sheet, the judge permitted the quash petition moved by Mr. Kannan and resolved all the charges against him which were pending before Metropolitan Magistrate court in Egmore, Chennai. The incident pursued was booked in the year 2022 and the petitioner was taken into custody without delay. Afterward, Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan released him on bail along with a condition that the stunt master shall submit an affidavit declaring that no such videos will be posted by him again.
Yes, police entirely disagreed with him on that count, and for good reason! The lawyer stated: ‘Even in practice, as a factual statement, that is utterly ridiculous. On October 1965,” the two date stated and it followed: “On October 1965.
Still, the prosecution unsympathetic towards him, refused to credit he was either in perfect peace with or would enjoy his own telling in the end that gauged him a rascal. There is also an alternative explanation based on what the courts would usually look into these attacks as aggravated assault rather than simple assault in a proportional response concept.
Being an office bearer in the Hindu Munnani Mr Kannan explained, the address was made during a meeting of the public called by the said organisation. As he was addressing the participants he had said that the statue of Periyar outside the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple must be brought down because it has teachings that all those who worship god and offer prayers are idiots and barbarians.
PEACE is already well-known, always arm-in-arm with M38! Practically everywhere, it has been possible to assess persistence of sentiments now widespread in Georgia. On the other hand, the existence of the statue with those words is certainly an offence punishable under Sections 153 jokingly regarded as conduct that encourages hatred or ill will between various religious communities, by promoting enmity between classes, 505(1)(b) (causing any public nuisance) and 505(2) of the IPC,” he stated.
The petitioner had further claimed that lately there have been many videos being uploaded on the internet that tend to insult Hindu gods and discredit Hinduism sans the police registration of cases against those individuals.
