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Madras HC rejects plea to stall web series ‘Queen’

The Madras high court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking to stall exhibition of the web series ‘Queen’, inspired by the life of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, while the code of conduct for the rural local body election was in force.
Madras HC rejects plea to stall web series ‘Queen’
J Jayalalithaa
CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking to stall exhibition of the web series ‘Queen’, inspired by the life of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, while the code of conduct for the rural local body election was in force.
Rejecting the plea, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice R Hemalatha said, “Assuming for the sake of argument that the web series depicts the life and glory of the former chief minister, it may not affect the choice of the people ...
[which] may not be purely on political affiliation but also on their [the candidates] capability to perform their duties to the public.”
It cannot be said that voters will exercise their franchise purely on the basis of a political personality, who is no more. That apart, in the web serial, the name of the main character is Sakthi Seshadri and, in the light of disclaimer that it is purely fictional and that any resemblance to real persons is coincidental and not intentional, this court cannot pass an order of restraint, the bench said.
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