A criminal revision petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here against the refusal of a judicial magistrate in Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district to direct the police to register a case against Rural Industries Minister K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji for allegedly making a threatening remark in a television interview.
The petitioner, P. Sivasubramanian (46) of Rajapalayam, stated that his brother P. Meenakshi Sundaram was hacked to death by a gang in 2014. Hence, he sent a complaint to the police suspecting the involvement of the Minister in the murder.
TV interview
Irked over it, the Minister threatened to attack him in an interview telecast on a Tamil television channel on October 18, 2015, he claimed.
Stating that the magistrate had on April 28, 2016 refused to entertain the petition for a direction to register an FIR despite submitting a video footage of the interview, the petitioner urged the court to set aside the magistrate’s order and order registration of a criminal case.
