Sexual abuse: Bail denied to scribe

Chennai | Sunday | 21st July, 2019

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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: The Madras High Court has denied anticipatory bail to journalist Prakash M Swamy who apprehended arrest in connection with a case of alleged sexual abuse. According to prosecution, the petitioner offered to redress some issue in the complainant son’s passport on June 30, 2018. In the pretext of assisting her, it was alleged he sexually abused the complainant. Since no action was initiated, she approached a metropolitan magistrate court at Saidapet after which Saidapet all-women police registered an FIR. Hence, Prakash M Swamy moved the present application..