No one is spared on social media, says choose trolled for condemning Vijays TVK

Justice N. Senthilkumar of the Madras High Court on Monday (October 6, 2025) mentioned he selected to disregard the social media trolling he was subjected to after he recorded his “sturdy condemnation” for the best way actor C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) had responded to the stampede on the occasion’s rally in Karur on September 27.

The choose broached the topic through the listening to of a civil go well with filed by standard chef and movie actor Madhampatty T. Rangaraj to restrain costume designer Joy Crizildaa from making false, malicious, and defamatory statements in opposition to him in any type of media, stating that they disparage his character rights.

When senior counsel Srinath Sridevan argued in regards to the harm prompted to his consumer due to the “defamatory” statements made by Ms. Crizildaa on social media, the choose mentioned: “Senior counsel, please inform me who’s spared on social media today. Even judges are trolled day out and in.”

In an indirect reference to him and his members of the family being trolled closely after his October 3 verdict constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Karur tragedy, which led to the lack of 41 harmless lives, Justice Senthilkumar requested: “Do you imply to say that we’re not experiencing it?”

He went on to state: “Just as a result of others have a divergent view, our members of the family are pulled in, previous historical past is pulled in, and so they begin portray colors to a choose. These issues do occur, however why ought to we take a critical word of all these items? In truth, we must always simply smile and ignore them.”

When Mr. Sridevan, assisted by advocate Vijayan Subramanian, mentioned not each particular person would have the psychological energy to disregard such character assassination in public fora, the choose replied: “When you achieve fame and attain a selected standing in society, these items are certain to occur.”

Later, the choose ordered discover to Ms. Crizildaa and requested her senior counsel S. Prabakaran to be sure that a counter affidavit was filed by October 22. He additionally refused to cross any type of interim order in opposition to her with out giving a possibility to file her response.

At the tip of the listening to, Mr. Prabakaran, additionally the vice-chairman of the Bar Council of India, instructed the choose the Bar stands totally in assist of the choose and he needn’t take the trolling to coronary heart. The choose replied it was precisely what he had been saying all alongside.