JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed u/s 482 Cr.P.C. praying this Court to quash C.C. No.212/2017 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Kancheepuram.)

This matter has been repeatedly listed before this Court atleast on four occasions and there was no representation for the parties. On the last occasion on 9.8.2021, the matter was directed to be listed under the caption “For Dismissal”. Inspite of very many opportunities granted, when the matter is listed on 22.09.2021, there is no representation for the parties. In view of the fact that the matter pertains to the year 2017, this Court has taken up the matter and decided to decide the same on merits.

It is the case of the respondent that the petitioner, being the State President of the Bharathiya Janata Party, while giving an interview to the electronic and print media, had termed the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and its head, to which party the respondent belongs as a party which is conducting Kangaroo Courts and also abducting the lands from the public and has uttered the derogatory remarks against the political party and its head. On the said averments, private complaint has been filed by the petitio