The Chennai sources have stated that The Madras High Court on Tuesday has ruled in favor of Perumal Murugan, author of novel Madhorubhagan, granting him relief from all the controversies that have shrouded the work of fiction that compelled him to announce that he would withdraw his entire body of work from publication and never write again.
It is stated that the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association president S.Tamilselvan has expressed solidarity with the writer, had challenged the decision of a peace committee at a meeting organized by the district administration in Namakkal on January 12th.
Meanwhile, a group of people, who have claimed to be residents of Tiruchengodu, have approached the High Court to initiate criminal charges against the author and concluding the year-long legal battle, the First Bench of Chief Justice S. K. Kaul and Justice Puspha Sathyanarayana has held that the settlement arrived at the peace meet would not be binding on the author.
The court has directed the State government to circulate a series of guidelines framed by the court to handle such situations among the State police and to form an expert committee to handle such issues.
