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2008 Supreme(Mad) 1473

R.REGUPATHI
S. Khusboo – Appellant
Versus
Kanniammal – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Sunder Mohan, Advocate, K. Asokan, Senior Counsel, M/s. R. Karthikeyan & R. Bharnidharan, Advocates.
For the Respondent:K. Balu, R. Ashraf Khan, Rupert J. Barnabas, Ananthapadmanabhan, Advocates.

Judgment :-

Cries and clamors and voices of condemnation could be heard throughout the State of Tamil Nadu subsequent to the controversial comments of a famed cine celebrity made during her interviews to a famous Magazine and a popular Tamil Daily about premarital sex & Indian Society and Tamil culture and, as the feelings of the members of the commonalty had been outraged, the waves of reflex could swiftly cross even the boundaries of the State. The fuming aura due to sweeping protests and obstinate agitations got eased only when doors of the court were knocked at various districts of Tamil Nadu, of course in North India also at Indore, by filing private complaints against the actress and there derived a positivity that law would take its own course. The present batch of petitions have been preferred to quash the proceedings pending before various courts of Magistrates in the State on the ground that there was illegality on the part of the trial courts in taking cognizance of the offences alleged in the baseless private complaints and subsequently issuing summons against the petitioner. Actually, some of the petitions have been filed before this Court while others before the Madura




































































































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