In a bid to put pressure on the Chennai police and courts to start trial in a sedition case pending against him since 2009, MDMK general secretary Vaiko surrendered before the court on Monday and refused to apply for bail. This left the magistrate with no other option but to remand him in judicial custody for a fortnight.
The matter relates to the release of Vaiko’s book ‘Naan Kutram Sattugiren’ (I am accusing you), which is a compilation of the MDMK leader’s letters to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009.
The book was released at a function in Rani Seethai Hall in Chennai in 2009. The Thousand Lights police slapped him with the case for his ‘seditious’ speech punishable under Section 124(A) of the IPC. The police completed investigation and filed a chargesheet in 2010. Since then there had been no sign of trial in the case.
Courtesy: Times of India
