ORDER: Criminal Original Petition is to seek quashment of the chargesheet taken on file by the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Kancheepuram in C.C.No.83 of 2005.

2. The petitioner stands charged for offences under Secs.176, 179 read with Sec.195, I.P.C., and under Sec.14 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.

3. That on 9.12.2004, at the premises of the office of the special investigation team designated for the investigation of Sankararaman murder case at Kancheepuram, within the jurisdiction of Vishnu Kanchi Police Station, the accused, being the columnist in English and Tamil dailies and in selective Tamil magazines, with the intention to create false evidence and to side track the special investigation team from the above said murder case, wrote misleading articles in “The New Indian Express” and the same was published on 23.11.2004 with the head line “As the Sankarachariya stands like Abimanyu” at page No.9 and on 24.11.2004 as “unless the case is re-investigated, justice will not be done” at page No.9 and on 26.11.2004 “as its dead who will do the funeral, and when?” at page No.9 and also wrote in Thuklak Magazine dated 1.12.2004 and in the same magazine on 8.12.2

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