JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code to call for the records in C.C.No.23 of 2021 on the file of the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Additional Special Court for Trial of Cases relating to MPs and MLAs, Singaravelar Maligai, Chennai-1 and quash the same against the petitioner.)

1. This criminal original petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (for short, the Code) to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.23 of 2021 pending before the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Additional Special Court for Trial of Cases relating to MPs and MLAs, Singaravelar Maligai, Chennai-1.

2. A complaint came to be given by the second respondent herein before the first respondent - Police to the effect that the petitioner had released a video on 03.8.2020 on his youtube channel and made objectionable remarks with an intention of spreading false information against the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and also insulted the national flag to incite communal violence in the State. Based on the said complaint, a first information report came to be registered in Cr.No.260 of 2020 on the file of the first respondent for an offence under Section