The Madras High Court on Thursday made absolute an interim bail granted to Subbiah Shanmugam, former national president of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on Monday in a case booked against him for urinating outside the door of his woman neighbour, following a dispute over parking space.
Justice G. Jayachandran did not agree with the contention of the prosecution that there was no mala fide intention behind arresting the petitioner, who was a suspended government surgical oncologist, in the case after over 20 months as the complaint was lodged and choosing to effect such an arrest on a Saturday.
The judge also recorded the submission of a counsel representing the victim that she had struck a compromise with the petitioner long ago and was not interested in pursuing the complaint, lodged by her nephew. In his interim bail order, the judge had found a “patent error and ulterior motive” behind the arrest of the petitioner.
Therefore, he made the interim order absolute.
