Perumal at liberty to decide which petition he should pursue: HC

January 22, 2015 23:36

The Madras High Court today gave Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, who withdrew from the literary world after a row over his novel "Mathorubhagan' objected toby right wing groups, the liberty to decide if he would like to pursue a petition filed by a supporter or that by a writer's forum.

"In the present petition, the author has been impleaded as a respondent whereas in the first petition filed by writers association in which similar issues were raised, the author was sought to be impleaded. In our view, rights can be agitated by the author and he will choose which petition he would like to prosecute," the first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M M Sundresh, said.

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