
HC quashes FIR against YouTuber Maridhas
The Hindu
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday quashed the FIR registered by Melapalayam police in Tirunelveli against YouTuber Maridhas. He was booked for linking the Tablighi Jamaat’s confer
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday quashed the FIR registered by Melapalayam police in Tirunelveli against YouTuber Maridhas. He was booked for linking the Tablighi Jamaat’s conference held in Delhi last year to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi and other parts of the country.
Melapalayam police had booked Maridhas based on a complaint lodged by the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam functionary Mohammed Khader Meeran. The YouTuber was booked under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The complainant said that Maridhas had linked the Tablighi Jamaat’s conference held in Delhi last year to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Delhi and other parts of the country and had called it a new form of terrorism. The petitioner denied the allegations levelled against him.













