Chennai: The Madras high court has stayed the proceedings pending before the special court, constituted exclusively to try cases relating to MPs and MLAs, against the then DMK treasurer M.K.Stalin for allegedly issuing defamatory statements against former chief minister late J.Jayalalithaa in 2012.
Justice P.N.Prakash however directed Stalin to appear before the special court within two weeks and give an undertaking that he will appear before the special court without waiting for summons in the event of criminal original petition is dismissed.
The judge gave the direction on a criminal original petition filed by Stalin, which sought to quash the defamation proceedings pending before the special court.
In his petition, Stalin submitted that the allegations levelled against him have been made with malicious motive to wreck vengeance against the DMK party and it was a case of political vendetta and therefore the case on the file of the special court was liable to be quashed. There was no prima facie case to maintain the proceedings against him for offences under section 500 and 501 IPC and hence the same was liable to be quashed, he added.
He said the lower court has failed to find that the allegations in the complaint against him do not constitute vital ingredients for the offences under section 500 and 501 IPC.
The lower court ought not to have taken the complaint which was only a concocted bundle of statement containing malicious allegation against him by the complainant, who had ventured to harass him for the only reason he belong to the opposition party, he added.
