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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
G.K. ILANTHIRAIYAN
M. Saravana Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Tamil Nadu, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Home (Police) Department – Respondent
ORDER :
(G.K. ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.)
All these writ petitions have been filed for direction forbearing the Special Investigation Team from harassing the petitioners in the guise of an enquiry pursuant to the registration of FIR in Crime No.107 of 2024 on the file of the Special Investigation Team, Chennai East Zone, Cyber Crime Police Station, without following due process of law. The Criminal Original Petition has been filed for direction to direct the respondent police not to harass the petitioners in the guise of an enquiry in connection with crime No.107 of 2024 on the file of the second respondent except due process of law.
2. The issue in all these petitions is one and the same and as such this Court is inclined to pass a common order.
3. All the petitioners are the reporters of their respective news channels and the Chennai Press Club consisting the members including Reporters, Sub-editors, Photographers, Cameramen, Proof Readers, Lay-out artists etc., working as reporters for their respective news paper, magazine, television news channels in Tamil Nadu. On 23.12.2024, within the campus of Anna University situated at Guindy, Chennai, a second year engineering student was allegedly s
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