Madras Excessive Court docket grants bail to Indu Makkal Katchi youth wing chief Omkar Balaji

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The Madras Excessive Court docket on Wednesday (December 4, 2024) granted bail to Indu Makkal Katchi (IMK) chief Ok. Arjun Sampath’s son and the social gathering’s youth wing chief A.S. Omkar Balaji in a case registered in opposition to him for having allegedly threatened to cut off journalist Nakkheeran R. Gopal’s tongue.

Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira granted the reduction after making an allowance for that the petitioner was beneath incarceration since November 14 and on the situation that he should seem earlier than the investigating officer connected to the Coimbatore Metropolis police each day till additional orders.

In keeping with the prosecution, the IMK had organised a protest assembly close to Racecourse station in Coimbatore on October 27 to sentence those that oppose Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Basis and the Isha Yoga Centre positioned on the Velliangiri foothills.

IMK president Mr. Sampath, in addition to the current petitioner, had participated within the protest. An autorickshaw vendor, additionally a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, occurred to listen to the speech whereas passing by and lodged a police criticism the subsequent day.

The complainant A. Abdul Jaleel had accused the current petitioner of getting warned Mr. Gopal that he can be dragged to the streets like a canine, handcuffed, and locked up in jail when the DMK loses energy within the State. He additionally alleged that the petitioner had threatened to cut off the journalist’s tongue.

The petitioner’s counsel argued earlier than the Excessive Court docket that the alleged assertion was solely a determine of speech and that it will be subsequent to unattainable for anybody to chop one other particular person’s tongue.