ORDER

This criminal original petition has been filed praying to quash the proceedings in CC.No.11750 of 2022 pending on the file of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Egmore, Chennai against the petitioner.

2. The respondent filed a private complaint alleging that the petitioner has deliberately involved in malicious, reckless defamatory publications against him in multiple public platforms including YouTube interviews and Facebook posts using abusive and scandalous expressions. The petitioner also made allegations against the respondent that he has criminal antecedents without any lawful adjudication. It was alleged that the respondent falsely represented himself as Professor and thereby misled the Government as if he pursued Master Degree in Criminology Department at Madras University and is also pursuing Ph.D. in the said University. O