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Kushboo cases to be transferred to CMM court

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered all cases against actor Kushboo for her statement and interviews to a magazine and a Tamil daily on pre-marital sex and Indian society and Tamil culture, to be transferred to the file of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM), Egmore.

Joint trial

In his order on a petition filed by the actor, Justice R. Regupathi said the CMM should conduct joint trial of the cases and dispose them of within six months.

He directed the trial courts concerned to transmit the papers forthwith to the CMM court for commencement of the trial.

The Judge said he was of the considered opinion that prima facie an offence under section 499 IPC was made out and that the complainants were aggrieved persons in the eyes of law to set the law in motion.

In order to avoid scattered trial of cases involving the same cause of action before several courts, it was but proper to direct joint trial and disposal of all cases that were pending, instead of taking up separate proceedings against her for violation of court’s orders.

In her petition, the actor sought to quash the proceedings on the file of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chengalpattu.

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