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The Supreme Court, connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025), quashed a ‘rape’ case registered against Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) main coordinator S. Seeman by an histrion successful 2011, aft some parties agreed to amicably resoluteness the matter.
A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan noted that Mr. Seeman had tendered an unconditional apology, retracted the allegations made against the complainant and undertaken not to interaction her successful immoderate manner. The actor, successful turn, submitted an affidavit withdrawing some her ailment and the FIR against him.
“The entity and intent of filing these affidavits by the parties is to springiness a quietus to each controversies and litigations betwixt them,” the Bench observed, adding that the FIR stood quashed successful presumption of the settlement.
Senior advocator Shadan Farasat, appearing for the actor, clarified that her determination to retreat the ailment could not beryllium construed arsenic an apology to Mr. Seeman. He besides requested that members of Mr. Seeman’s governmental enactment refrain from making statements against his client. Senior advocator Gopal Sankarnarayanan, representing Mr. Seeman, assured the tribunal that specified restraint would beryllium maintained.
The tribunal directed some parties to abide by the undertakings made successful their affidavits “in missive and successful spirit.”
The Bench had earlier advised Mr. Seeman to apologise to the complainant and retreat his allegations, indicating that the lawsuit could beryllium quashed if some sides expressed willingness to settee the dispute.
Mr. Seeman was booked successful 2011 nether Sections 417 (cheating), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 354 (assault connected a woman), 376 (rape), and 506(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, work with Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act.
The complainant had alleged that she was successful a narration with Mr. Seeman betwixt 2007 and 2011 connected the assurance of marriage, but that helium subsequently joined idiosyncratic else.
On March 3, the Supreme Court had stayed the investigation aft the Madras High Court refused to quash the FIR, issuing announcement connected Mr. Seeman’s plea to research the anticipation of a settlement. The High Court had earlier, successful February 2023, dismissed his plea and directed completion of the probe wrong 12 weeks.
