The Madras High Court on Monday stayed all further proceedings in a case pending against actor S.Ve. Shekher before a Judicial Magistrate court at Ambattur here. The case had been taken up on the basis of a private complaint lodged in connection with a “derogatory” post that he had shared on his Facebook page after Governor Banwarilal Purohit patted a woman journalist on her cheek during a press conference on April 17 last year.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan granted the interim stay and adjourned the actor’s quash petition by four weeks. Claiming that he was not the author of the Facebook post and that he had inadvertently shared the post, penned by another individual, without even reading it, the petitioner said, he need not be made to face the arduous task of facing the trial when he was not the author of the post. He also alleged that the complaint had been lodged to tarnish his image.