MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday quashed all criminal proceedings against
DMDK founder
Vijayakanth in a
case pertaining to clashes among lawyers inside a district sessions court at
Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu in 2013.
The Kottar police had registered an
FIR against the actor-turned-politician under various sections, including Section 307 (attempt to murder), of the IPC.
The FIR had been registered on a complaint filed by the then Kanyakumari district public prosecutor, A Gnanasekar. The public prosecutor had contended that Vijayakanth had stared at him and gesticulated his men to attack him.
When the case came up for final hearing, Justice G R Swaminathan quashed the FIR and noted that prosecuting Vijayakanth in this case would be a gross abuse of legal process.
DMDK founder Vijayakanth