The Madras High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Minister D. Jayakumar of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in an attempt to murder case booked against him after a video went viral on the social media where he was seen forcing a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) cadre to remove his shirt and parading him half naked after suspecting him to have come to cast bogus votes on the urban local bodies poll day.
Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira granted the relief on condition that the former Minister must stay in Tiruchi for two weeks and sign before the Cantonment Police Station on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Senior Counsel Sanjay R. Hegde and A. Natarajan had been engaged to argue the bail plea for the petitioner since it was expected that the prosecution might oppose the plea tooth and nail leading to heated arguments.
Even the judge had passed over the hearing of the case after other bail petitions since he thought that the arguments would go on for long. However, the prosecution sprung a surprise by making a submission right at the beginning of the hearing that the bail plea could be considered by directing the petitioner to file an affidavit that he would not repeat such instances in the future. The judge appreciated the prosecution for having taken a fair stand.
