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The Madras High Court connected Friday (November 7, 2025) reserved orders connected a plea by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) person Aadhav Arjuna to quash a First Information Report (FIR) registered against him for his allegedly inflammatory September 29, 2025 tweet insinuating a revolt against the Tamil Nadu authorities by the youngsters and Gen Z, arsenic had happened successful Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira deferred his verdict aft proceeding elder counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the petitioner and N.R. Elango, assisted by Additional Public Prosecutor E. Raj Thilak, for the Chennai cybercrime constabulary which had booked the FIR connected the ground of a ailment lodged by N. Shanmugham of Thiru Vi Ka Nagar successful Chennai connected September 30.
Mr. Singhvi said, the volition of his client, a governmental personality, was lone to criticise the State authorities for crushing dissent and unleashing constabulary brutality against its governmental opponents. That’s precisely wherefore helium had edited the tweet wrong the archetypal 15 minutes and deleted the references to Nepal and Sri Lanka earlier deleting the full tweet wrong 30 minutes, the counsel added.
However, Mr. Elango said, the references to Nepal and Sri Lanka itself intelligibly grounds the intent of the petitioner. Stating that the tweet prima facie appeared to beryllium an effort to disturb the nationalist tranquility successful the State, helium said, quashing the FIR successful specified cases would nonstop a incorrect connection to others that they could misuse their state of code and liberty and inactive get distant without being prosecuted.
