KOCHI: The
high court
has issued a stay on proceedings against Congress MP
Shashi Tharoor in a case alleging
unwarranted imputation
on the
chastity
of
Nair women
in the 1982 book, ‘
The Great Indian Novel
’.
Justice P Gopinath issued a stay after considering a petition by the MP of Thiruvananthapuram through advocate BS Suraj Krishna.
The case was registered on the basis of a complaint filed before a court in Thiruvananthapuram by Sandhya Sreekumar. She had alleged that a sentence in the book made unwarranted imputation against the chastity of Nair women.
Tharoor had contended before the high court that a complete reading of the part in which the sentences appeared clearly show that the sentences were not used in a derogatory sense or with a malicious intent to malign Nair women as alleged. The book was published in 1982 and the lower court should not have taken cognizance as it is not allowed after 10 years, the petition said.
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