Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday issued orders to withdraw 90 defamation instances filed towards journalists and media organizations between 2012 and February 2021. Cases had been registered towards English and Tamil dailies, weekly magazines and tv information channels by the earlier AIADMK authorities.
The DMK-led authorities claimed that it was fulfilling one of many guarantees made in its election manifesto.
Four instances towards the English press had been registered towards the editor of The Hindu newspaper, 5 towards the editor of The Times of India and one towards The Economic Times. In addition, 23 instances had been registered in Tamil media towards the editor of weekly Tamil journal Nakhiran, 17 towards the editor of DMK mouthpiece Murasoli, 12 towards the editor of Tamil every day Dinamalar, 11 towards the editor of the weekly journal Junior Vikatan. , 9 towards Anand Vikatan and 4 towards Tamil every day Dinakaran.
Cases registered towards English and Tamil information channels similar to NDTV, Times Now, Puthiya Thalaimurai, News 7, Satyam, Captain and Kalainar have additionally been ordered to be withdrawn.
In the backdrop of the order, a number of journalists took to Twitter to thank CM Stalin for withdrawing the instances.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
