Actor Suriya and Jai Bhim director T.J. Gnanavel have filed a joint petition before the Madras High Court to quash a First Information Report (FIR) registered against them at the Velachery police station in Chennai for having allegedly hurt the feelings of the Vanniyar community by portraying it in a bad light in the movie.
Their petition has been listed for admission before Justice N. Sathish Kumar on Monday when he would take a call on staying all further proceedings pursuant to the registration of the case as prayed for by the petitioners. The FIR was booked on May 17 at the instance of Chennai-based advocate K. Santhosh of Rudra Vanniyar Sena.
According to the petitioners, the movie was based upon a case which Justice K. Chandru, a retired judge of the High Court, had conducted while he was a lawyer. Except for his name and the name of former Inspector General of Police Perumalsamy, the names of all other characters were changed in the movie.
