The Madras High Court has refused to quash summons issued by a Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Chennai to oral and maxillofacial surgeon S.M. Balaji for allegedly sending an e-mail with malicious contents against another surgeon R. Gunaseelan to the members of International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS) in 2013.
Justice P.N. Prakash passed a stinging order directing Dr. Balaji and his hospital employee R. Jeyapragash to appear before the Magistrate on November 2. He expressed surprise over the way in which a police officer and a judicial officer had handled the case and said: “this clearly shows that some invisible hand had worked behind the screen”.
