The Madras High Court, on Friday, dismissed the case filed by a Dravidian outfit against actor Rajinikanth on his comment against Periyar. Responding to the case, the court said: 'Why rush to High Court instead of going to Magistrate Court?', ANI reported.
Rajinikanth had kicked up a row recently with his comments on a rally taken out by social reformer and leader EV Ramaswamy 'Periyar'. After a Dravidian outfit demanded an apology from him for his comments on a rally taken out by social reformer Periyar decades ago, Rajinikanth had asserted that he will neither express regret nor tender an apology and maintained that his remark was factual.
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Showing clippings from magazines and newspapers, the top actor said the idols of Lord Ram and Sita were taken out without dress and the deities also featured a garland of sandals in a rally led by late Periyar E V Ramasamy in 1971.
"A controversy has emerged that I said something that did not happen. But I did not say anything that did not occur. I only said what I heard and things that appeared in magazines. Sorry, I will not express regret or apologise," he told reporters outside his Poes Garden residence.
-with PTI inputs
