
Director’s defamation case adjourned to October 4
The Hindu
The director objected to respondent’s plan to travel abroad
A metropolitan magistrate court on Monday adjourned to October 4 the trial proceedings in a defamation case filed by film director Susi Ganesan against poet and filmmaker Leena Manimekalai.
In 2019, Mr. Ganesan filed a defamation case against the poet, who accused him of sexual harassment when the #MeToo movement started. Last year, he filed a petition seeking to impound her passport as she planned to go to Canada for film-related studies, and the trial would be delayed if she was allowed to leave.
However, the metropolitan magistrate court last November passed an order closing the petition filed by Mr. Ganesan after recording the undertaking given by the poet that she would appear before the court as and when necessary.