DIG Varun Kumar urges Madras Excessive Courtroom to restrain NTK chief Seeman from making defamatory allegations

Deputy Inspector Normal of Police (Tiruchi Vary) Varun Kumar has approached the Madras Excessive Courtroom to restrain Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief S. Seeman from making defamatory, false, slanderous, or scandalous allegations in opposition to him by the media.

Justice Okay. Kumaresh Babu accepted a request made by senior counsel P.H. Arvind Pandian, representing the DIG, for an pressing listening to of the plea as a result of critical reputational harm being precipitated, and directed the Excessive Courtroom Registry to checklist the matter on August 6, 2025.

Within the meantime, since advocate S. Shankar, representing Mr. Seeman, too entered look and objected to the grant of an ex-parte interim injunction, the decide granted him time until the subsequent listening to for submitting a counter affidavit on behalf of the NTK chief.

Submitting an affidavit in assist of his interim injunction software, the DIG listed out his skilled achievements since he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) after securing All India Rank-3 within the 2010 Union Public Service Fee (UPSC) civil providers examination.

Stating that Mr. Seeman had based the NTK in 2010, the DIG mentioned, he was a politician identified for his demagoguery and controversial statements and actions, which had attracted criticism from varied political events in addition to others for his or her polarising nature.

“His views and statements have, on quite a few events, been seen as inciting division, and his rhetoric has stirred public debate,” Mr. Kumar mentioned, and claimed that the politician started a private tirade in opposition to him ever for the reason that latter took motion in opposition to a celebration member.

In 2020-21, NTK member ‘Sattai’ Duraimurugan was arrested by Tiruvallur district police for having precipitated a regulation and order difficulty as a result of a false declare on his YouTube channel in regards to the loss of life of Foxconn manufacturing facility staff as a result of meals poisoning. He was additionally detained underneath the Goondas Act.

“At the moment, I used to be serving because the Superintendent of Police, Tiruvallur district. Following ‘Sattai’ Duraimurugan’s arrest, the Respondent herein (Mr. Seeman), the Chief Coordinator of Naam Tamilar Katchi, developed intense animosity in direction of me,” the DIG mentioned.

Complaining that the NTK chief had been making disparaging remarks in opposition to him within the media since then, the DIG mentioned, Mr. Seeman had termed him “a beggar” apart from sullying the picture of the whole police drive within the nation by stating that he was “in spite of everything an IPS officer.”

The DIG accused the NTK chief of additionally insinuating that he received promoted from one rank to the subsequent not due to advantage however due to his political allegiance. The officer mentioned, the followers of the politicians too had begun harassing him and his members of the family on social media, thereby inflicting immense psychological agony.