The Madras High Court Wednesday directed the Coimbatore District Legal Services Authority to submit a report on the health condition of YouTuber and activist Savukku Shankar..A vacation bench of Justices AD Jagadish Chandira and R Kalamathi passed the order on a habeas corpus petition filed by Shankar’s mother claiming the YouTuber had been assaulted while in judicial custody at the Coimbatore Central Prison. .The petitioner A Kamala, and her counsel Senior Advocate R John Sathyan, sought a judicial inquiry into the alleged violence.The Bench however, said it will wait for the legal services authority's report..Kamala has claimed in her petition that Shankar was falsely arrested by the Coimbatore Cyber Crime Police on May 4 for speaking ill about women police personnel in an interview that he gave to a YouTube channel. Sathyan told the Court that during the medical examination before his arrest, Shankar had been declared fit by the authorities. However, when another lawyer met him in prison recently, Shankar claimed he had been assaulted and that he had suffered a fracture on his right arm.
The Madras High Court Wednesday directed the Coimbatore District Legal Services Authority to submit a report on the health condition of YouTuber and activist Savukku Shankar..A vacation bench of Justices AD Jagadish Chandira and R Kalamathi passed the order on a habeas corpus petition filed by Shankar’s mother claiming the YouTuber had been assaulted while in judicial custody at the Coimbatore Central Prison. .The petitioner A Kamala, and her counsel Senior Advocate R John Sathyan, sought a judicial inquiry into the alleged violence.The Bench however, said it will wait for the legal services authority's report..Kamala has claimed in her petition that Shankar was falsely arrested by the Coimbatore Cyber Crime Police on May 4 for speaking ill about women police personnel in an interview that he gave to a YouTube channel. Sathyan told the Court that during the medical examination before his arrest, Shankar had been declared fit by the authorities. However, when another lawyer met him in prison recently, Shankar claimed he had been assaulted and that he had suffered a fracture on his right arm.