JUDGMENT

(Prayer: PETITIONS under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code to call for the records respectively in

(i) C.C.No.154 of 2018 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.1, Tirunelveli (Crl.O.P. (MD) No.11494 of 2018);

(ii) C.C.No.223 of 2018 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.2, Karur (Crl.O.P.(MD) No.12163 of 2018);

(iii) S.T.C.No.276 of 2018 pending on the file of the Judicial Magistrate, Ambattur (Crl.O.P.No.5099 of 2019); and

(iv) C.C.No.62 of 2019 on the file of the Assistant Sessions Court, Additional Special Court for Trial of Cases relating to MPs and MLAs, Singaravelar Maligai, Chennai-1 (Crl.O.P. No.6211 of 2021)

and quash the same as against the petitioner.)

Common Order

The issue involved in all these criminal original petitions is common and hence, they are taken up together, heard and disposed of by this common order.

2. The brief facts leading to filing of these petitions are stated as hereunder :

(i) The petitioner in all these petitions is a past Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Mylapore Constituency during the years 2006-2011. The petitioner is said to have published/circulated an abusive, derogatory and vulgar comment in