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Political commentator V. Ponraj has filed 2 anticipatory bail petitions successful the Madras High Court fearing apprehension by the Chennai and Cuddalore constabulary successful cases registered against him for his alleged derogatory code against women who respect Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and enactment his enactment Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).
The petitions are apt to beryllium heard by Justice R. Sakthivel connected Thursday (May 21, 2026). The petitioner told the tribunal that helium was a distinguished scientist, nationalist argumentation advisor and a societal visionary with 35 years of acquisition successful aerospace technologies, accusation systems and younker empowerment.
He had served arsenic Director (Technology Interface) astatine the President’s Secretariat during the tenure of erstwhile President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and subsequently arsenic an advisor connected Science & Technology and Public Policy to Mr. Kalam from 2007 to 2015. Of late, helium had been involving himself successful governmental commentry.
The petitioner said that helium was interviewed by a YouTube transmission successful March 2026 and was posed questions regarding the behaviour of definite members of TVK’s women’s helping who undermine household values and societal morality. Then, the petitioner criticised the circumstantial behaviour of those individuals and not women successful general.
This led to Mr. Vijay himself gathering the Director General of Police to lodge a complaint. Subsequently, the cyber transgression helping successful Chennai arsenic good arsenic the Cuddalore New Town Police registered idiosyncratic First Information Reports (FIRs) nether assorted provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and different peculiar laws.
Though the petitioner gave a antagonistic ailment against Mr. Vijay and his different enactment leaders, including Aadhav Arjuna, Rajmohan, Loyola Mani and Nanjil Sampath pursuant to hundreds of beingness threats received by him from TVK supporters, the constabulary had not chosen to registry immoderate FIR connected his complaint, Mr. Ponraj alleged.
Claiming that the allegations levelled against him successful the 2 FIRs are wholly false, fabricated and politically motivated, the petitioner said, the precise registration of the 2 cases was a wide lawsuit of misuse of governmental powerfulness to soundlessness morganatic governmental criticism.
“The petitioner submits that helium is simply a elder idiosyncratic of nationalist repute with an unblemished work record, including work astatine the President’s Secretariat nether the precocious Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. His apprehension would origin sedate and irreparable harm to his dignity, reputation, and nonrecreational standing,” the petition read.
It besides stated: “He (the petitioner) has heavy roots successful Chennai and is not a formation risk. There is nary tenable apprehension that helium volition tamper with grounds oregon interfere with the investigation. He is afloat consenting to cooperate with immoderate lawful investigation.”
