S Ve Shekher seeks advance bail from Madras high court

Chennai: Apprehending arrest in connection with a case registered against him for his alleged derogatory Facebook post on women, the actor-turned politician S.Ve .Shekher has approached the Madras high court seeking anticipatory bail. 

The petition is likely to come up for hearing on April 24. In his petition, S.Ve. Shekher, a member of BJP, submitted that on April 19, he had received a message from one Thirumalai Sa. The person, who forwarded the message to him in his group, used to forward patriotic and spiritual messages regularly to his Facebook account.

Normally, those messages used to be constructive and healthy. As the message was from the said account and under that bona fide impression, due to inadvertency by mistake, he had forwarded the message without reading the content and knowing its nature, which resulted in overconfidence. 

Subsequently, the same was pointed out by his friend that the said content was an abusive one, which was not at all acceptable for him and condemnable in nature. Hence, out of his own volition, since he was against the said views found in the forwarded message, immediately, he removed the same, he added.

He said, in fact, it has put him in mental anguish and he was totally upset. He was not for endorsing the views expressed in the message, since he was also from a family that respects women and women journalists. In such a factual and legal position, with a malafide intention of making him small before everyone, due to personal vendetta and political vengeance, some mischievous people were spreading the screen shot/photoshop of the deleted post. 

He had tendered his apology by way of a letter and posting through press and social media, even though he was not personally responsible for the said wrong. While so, a complaint has been made at the instigation of others, on April 20 before the Cyber Crime Cell, Vepery by making baseless allegations as if he had defamed the whole press fraternity, in particular, outraging the modesty of women, for which there was no iota of any truth and intention in it, he added.