The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday quashed the proceedings pending before Judicial Magistrate III in Thoothukudi against Canada-based Tamil student Lois Sophia, who had allegedly raised slogans against BJP in 2018 on board a flight on which then State BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan had also travelled.
Justice P. Dhanabal observed it did not constitute an offence and the matter was trivial in nature. The court quashed the proceedings pending before the Judicial Magistrate III in Thoothukudi. The court was hearing the petition filed in 2019 by Lois Sophia who had sought the quash of the proceedings against her.
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