COIMBATORE: A Coimbatore court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to film director Ameer in the case relating to his alleged inflammatory speech at a ‘round table’ discussion organised by a private Tamil TV channel in the city recently.
The district court judge Sanjai Baba observed that the organiser cannot dictate terms to the speakers and found slapping a case on the speaker of a TV debate show to be something new. Ameer, in the course of the discussion held early this month, spoke about the violence that happened in the aftermath of the murder of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar. It created a ruckus after a few cadres of the Hindu outfit raised objection.