1. Madras HC Bench quashes proceedings against Lois Sophia
The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has quashed the lower court proceedings pending before the Judicial Magistrate III Thoothukudi against Canada-based Tamil student Lois Sophia. Earlier in September 2018, Ms. Sophia was arrested for raising slogans against the BJP and for verbal duel with the then BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan on a Chennai - Thoothukudi flight.
Justice P. Dhanabal observed it did not constitute an offence and the matter was trivial in nature. The court was hearing the petition filed in 2019 by Lois Sophia who had sought the quash of the proceedings against her.