Chennai: YouTuber Savukku Shankar has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to detain him again under the Goondas Act, days after the Madras High Court quashed earlier orders passed under the preventive detention law.
The Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has granted him interim relief in the matter by staying any further coercive action.
“We have stopped all coercive action against him … We have granted protection from any coercive action in all 17 FIRs. File a complete chart of all FIRs as well,” the Court said today.
Representing Shankar, advocate Balaji Srinivasan informed that the latest detention order was issued after the Madras High Court quashed an earlier detention order against Shankar.
“They have detained me again in preventive detention … yesterday, again … I got bail in all cases … And now they have again detained me yesterday … Please record that I will challenge yesterday’s order also,” Srinivasan submitted.
As per reports, the latest detention order was passed on allegations that contraband (ganja) was found in Shankar’s possession.
The earlier detention order (passed in May) had cited, among other grounds, defamatory comments that were allegedly made by Shankar against women in an interview given to another YouTuber Felix Jerald.
Shankar remained in detention for over three months, partly because two judges of the Madras High Court disagreed on whether his detention should be quashed on May 24.
