Saturday, January 11, 2020

Kannan gets bail in hate speech case

K.Kaushik@timesgroup.com

Madurai:11.01.2020

The Tirunelveli principal sessions court on Friday granted conditional bail to writer and orator Nellai Kannan, 75, for his provocative speech against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah.

Kannan had delivered the provocative speech during a public meeting organised by the SDPI to condemn the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Tirunelveli on December 29, 2019. Based on the complaint by a BJP functionary, the Melapalayam police in Tirunelveli district registered a case against him under Sections 504, 505(1)(b), 505(ii), 153 A, 506 (i) of the IPC.

Following protests by BJP cadres, Kannan was arrested at a guest house in Perambalur and was produced before the Tirunelveli judicial magistrate court. The court remanded him in judicial custody till January 13 and he was lodged in the Salem Central Prison.

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