VELLORE: A woman was on Tuesday arrested for criticising a Madras High Court judge on her Facebook page. The arrest followed a complaint by Selvaraj, a police personnel attached to the Vellore south station.
On September 21, the woman on her FB page, had criticised Madras HC judge N Kirubakaran, for raising questions regarding the continuous protests and road roko by the Joint Action Council of Teachers Organization and Government Employees Organization (JACTO-GEO).
It was later found that the FB post was by a person called Mahalakshmi (42), a Sathuvachari resident. After a probe, police from the Vellore south station filed a complaint against Mahalakshmi and arrested her.
She was produced in the Criminal Judicial Court and was remanded to 15-day judicial custody.