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No move to arrest Gurumurthy: PP
Wednesday February 23 2005 00:00 IST
CHENNAI: ‘‘There is no move to arrest columnist S Gurumurthy,’’ Public Prosecutor K Doraisamy informed the Madras High Court on Tuesday.The submission was made by the PP when Justice K P Sivasubramaniam took up an urgent petition filed by Gurumurthy on Tuesday afternoon.
Originally, Gurumurthy had filed a writ petition seeking to quash a criminal complaint, which alleged that he had failed to furnish certain information available with him with regard to the Sankararaman murder case to the Kanchi Special Investigation Team. His interim prayer was to stay all further proceedings pursuant to the complaint.
In his present petition, Gurumurthy submitted that the writ petition was admitted by Justice Sivasubramaniam on Monday (Februray 21).
Since the PP prayed for time for filing his counter, the judge posted the hearing on the interim application to February 25.
While so, Gurumurthy alleged that Mohanavelu, Inspector of Vishnu Kanchi police station in Kanchi, sought to arrest the petitioner and had made certain representations to him.
Extracting the tele-conversation between him and Mohanavelu, Gurumurthy prayed that ‘in the circumstances and in view of the urgency, it is requested that the interim petition may be heard by this court at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday.
According to Gurumurthy, Inspector Mohanavelu contacted him, camping at Delhi, over cellphone and asked him whether he would come down to Chennai on February 22 and face the arrest or they should go over to Delhi to arrest him. The Inspector, who did not know much about the case and the Sections thereof, was under the wrong impression that the HC had rejected his anticipatory bail plea, Gurumurthy said, adding, ‘‘I think they are determined to arrest me even for a day to teach me a lesson and to the media.’’
When the judge took up the petition at 2.15 p.m., the PP told the judge that there was no move to arrest Gurumurthy till February 25.
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