Tamil Nadu Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram on Friday, September 22 refused to grant consent to initiate criminal contempt of court proceedings against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) organisation secretary R.S. Bharathi for having criticised Justice N. Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court after the latter took up suo motu revision against discharge/acquittal of a few sitting Ministers from disproportionate assets cases.
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Rejecting an application made by ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar seeking consent as required under Section 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act of 1971, the A-G said, he had perused the statements made by Mr. Bharathi to the media on August 24 but did not find any offence of criminal contempt having been made. The A-G said, even Justice Venkatesh himself had refused to initiate suo motu criminal contempt against the DMK leader.
