Madras High Court directs ‘Savukku’ Shankar to submit explanation in contempt petition filed by G Square
The Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice to ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar of Savukku Media and directed him to submit a detailed explanation, within four weeks, to a contempt of court petition filed against him by real estate firm G Square Realtors Private Limited.
Justice K. Kumaresh Babu sought the explanation, in the form of a counter affidavit, after senior counsel E. Omprakash, representing the realtor, accused the alleged contemnor of having wilfully violated the judge’s June 26, 2023 order with respect to charges levelled by him against the firm.
The realtor had initially filed a civil suit against the contemnor in 2022 accusing him of throwing wild allegations on social media. It claimed to have suffered huge financial loss because of such false propaganda.
Subsequently, when the contemnor filed an application in 2023 to vacate the injunction, Justice Babu, prima facie, found the applicant to have made at least a couple of statements recklessly without proper verification of facts and without attempting to know the truth.
He modified the 2022 injunction on June 26, 2023 and made it clear that the applicant should not publish any statement against G Square Realtors Private Limited without sending an email to it in connection with it and waiting for the firm’s response for 72 hours.
However, Mr. Omprakash complained to the court on Monday that the contemnor had gone about making reckless allegations against the realtor once again without sending any email as directed by the court, and therefore, this action amounted to wilful disobedience of court orders.