{"id":39978,"date":"2015-11-20T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=39978"},"modified":"2015-11-21T03:40:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:10:41","slug":"kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir","title":{"rendered":"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37864\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/helmets-for-2-wheeler-riders-must-from-july-1-in-tn\/madras-high-court-9\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"madras high court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ultra-Left propagandist singer Kovan, facing sedition charge, has moved the Madras High Court seeking to quash the FIR registered against him.<\/p>\n<p>When the matter came up for hearing, Justice R Subbiahordered notice to police and adjourned it to December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Kovan was arrested on October 30 for alleged sedition, uploading &#8220;defamatory&#8221; electronic content against Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and &#8220;disturbing&#8221; public peace. He was granted bail by the high court later.<\/p>\n<p>The singer of Leftist arts and literary outfit &#8216;Makkal Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam&#8217; submitted that he was engaged in building up a movement among the people on various issues faced by them and has sung a number of songs and done a number of roadshows.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming that so far not a single allegation had been raised against him or his songs, he alleged a &#8220;false case&#8221; was registered against him by the City Crime Branch for singing a song &#8216;shutdown Tasmac liquor shop&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The case was registered after seeing the song on a website. There was no material evidence and still police arrested him, Kovan alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made in violation of the Constitution, human rights and other laws, he contended and sought quashing of the FIR.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-Left propagandist singer Kovan, facing sedition charge, has moved the Madras High Court seeking to quash the FIR registered against him. When the matter came up for hearing, Justice R Subbiahordered notice to police and adjourned it to December 1. Kovan was arrested on October 30 for alleged sedition, uploading &#8220;defamatory&#8221; electronic content against Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":37864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[146,31987,2162,34637,117,80,4010,34638],"class_list":["post-39978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-j-jayalalithaa","tag-kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-madras-high-court","tag-r-subbiah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR : Legal India provides legal news and information related to law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR : Legal India provides legal news and information related to law.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-20T15:09:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-11-20T22:10:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"259\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"194\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2b856940493e891fdeab60e1199c3d26\"},\"headline\":\"Kovan moves Madras HC seeking to quash FIR\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-20T15:09:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-11-20T22:10:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/kovan-moves-madras-hc-seeking-to-quash-fir#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2015\\\/06\\\/madras-high-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Court\",\"featured\",\"J. 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