Chennai: Recording the submission of the DMK party men that they will not spread rumours about the health condition of Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and the submission of the police that they will not harass them, the Madras high court on Tuesday closed the petitions filed by DMK party men.
In their petitions, R.Navaneethakrishnan, a municipal ward councilor in Pollachi and Coimbatore district youth wing deputy organiser and S. Rajeev Gandhi, a member of DMK party and youth wing organiser of the 29th ward of Pollachi, sought to restrain the state from in any way harassing or interfering with their social media accounts under the guise of allegedly spreading rumours about the health condition of the CM.
Senior counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that Navaneethakrishnan had on October 10, posted a poem that he received on his Whats-App, on his Facebook , which was nothing but a satire on the current political scenario of the state. They deleted the same on the next day itself. They never had the intention to spread rumours, he added.
