The Tamil Nadu government has accorded sanction to prosecute BJP State president K. Annamalai for his “hate speech” against a “Christian Missionary NGO”, based on a legal opinion from the State Public Prosecutor (SPP) of the Madras High Court.
According to a government order (G.O.), the legal opinion was sought based on a petition filed by an activist, V. Piyush, in the Judicial Magistrate Court No. 4 of Salem and petitions that were sent by him to Home Secretary, Director-General of Police, and Commissioner of Police (Salem) last year against Mr. Annamalai and Rajavel Nagarajan from the YouTube channel Pesu Thamizha Pesu.
Mr. Piyush, a resident of Salem, told The Hindu that his petition was based on an interview, which Mr. Annamalai had given to the YouTube channel, in which the BJP leader had reportedly made unsubstantiated claims that Christian missionaries were behind the case that led to Supreme Court imposing restrictions on bursting of firecrackers during Deepavali.
