The magistrate refuses to remand Nakkeeran Gopal, Chief Editor of Tamil magazine Nakkeeran, to judicial custody. He was arrested after a complaint was filed against him by Raj Bhavan in Chennai over the publication's reportage on the Nirmala Devi case.


Nakkeeran Gopal, a well-known editor of the Tamil weekly was Tuesday arrested in Chennai while on his way to Pune, airport officials said.


Senior journalist R Gopal, who heads the vernacular 'Nakkheeran', was picked up by a police team from the airport, they said.


The weekly's website claimed Gopal was arrested based on a complaint from the Raj Bhavan over a write-up on Nirmala Devi, an assistant professor of a private college in Virudhunagar who had been arrested for allegedly prodding girl students to extend sexual favours to officials.