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The Supreme Court said on Monday that Tamil Nadu minister and DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin cannot get the same immunity as the media in connection with the case pertaining to his "eradicate Sanatan Dharma" remark..
"You (Stalin) have made the statements voluntarily," a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was quoted by PTI as saying..
The Supreme Court said this while dealing with a plea filed by Stalin, seeking to club multiple criminal complaints registered against him in several states for making the controversial remark..
During the hearing, Stalin relied on judgements rendered by the Supreme Court in cases involving journalists such as Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami, Mohammed Zubair, Amish Devgan and Nupur Sharma..
Reacting to this, the Supreme Court questioned why Stalin had filed a petition before the Supreme Court under Article 32 (remedies for enforcement of fundamental rights) of the Constitution instead of invoking Section 406 (power of Supreme Court to transfer cases and appeals) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)..
