Madurai Bench of Madras HC directs TV channel to apologise over video on VO Chidambaram Pillai

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has directed a private television channel to issue a public apology for airing a promotional video containing inappropriate and historically incorrect remarks about freedom fighter VO Chidambaram Pillai.

Accepting an undertaking given by the channel’s counsel that they are ready to apologise and adopt a restorative course, Justice L Victoria Gowri further directed the channel to conduct a state-level elocution competition about the life, sacrifices, legal career, Swadeshi enterprise and economic vision of the VOC every year on his birth anniversary (September 5), in coordination with the education department and recognized educational institutions.