In a huge embarrassment to Chennai police, the magistrate didn’t send the editor of Tamil magazine ‘Nakkeeran’ R R Gopal to remand and instead disposed off the case against him, by saying section 124 of the ipc . Which is related to sedition. Didn’t apply to Gopalan. The situation is worrisome. The chennai police accused a journalist of sedition because he did a story on governor Banwarilal purohit. Yes, purohit has said in a press conference that he didn’t know the woman professor who allegedly forced students in sex for marks scandal. But why this extreme reaction? Is freedom of expression, freedom of the fourth estate truly in danger? And above all, any merits to the argument by the opposition in Tamil Nadu that AIADMK is a complete puppet government of the BJP?
