Chennai, December 14, 2014 : .The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court quashed Tuesday’s FIR against YouTuber Maridhas.Madurai police registered an FIR against YouTuber after he tweeted that Tamil Nadu was becoming another Kashmir.
Maridhas was charged with violating Sections 124, 153 and 504 of the IPC.
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Judge also stated that YouTuber controversial had removed the tweet in just a few hours of posting it.After realizing that his response was not necessary, the Court stated that he would have removed the tweet “within hours” of its publication.
Quoting profusely from celebrated Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, the judge said that Pamukh had differentiated between naive writing and sentimental writing.He said that the naive write without thinking about the consequences and also not paying attention to what others say.
Discussing each of the charges in the FIR against Maridhas including sedition, the judge said, “The FIR is illegal and is immediately quashed as no charges have been made out against him.”
Tamil Nadu Additional Advocate General, Veera Kathiravan appearing for the prosecution argued that comparing Tamil Nadu with Kashmir and that the state government was supporting separatists, the YouTuber was consciously instigating his supporters to react violently so that a duly elected state government is toppled.”
The AAG also argued for the dismissal of the petition of Maridas to quash the FIR, but the Madras High Court accepted the petition and quashed the FIR against the YouTuber.
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