An urgent case was filed in the Madras High Court regarding the arrest of Opposition Leader Udhayanidhi Stalin. Following that, the court had ordered, “Since the Legislative Assembly is set to convene tomorrow, the hearing should be completed today itself and Udhayanidhi Stalin should be released.” Regarding this matter, DMK lawyer N.R. Elangovan addressed the media. At that time, “The Honorable Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly delivered a speech at a massive meeting held in Thanjavur about the Cauvery water issue.

In that speech, by claiming that he had said it, a few words were singled out and separated, and hidden meanings were read into the relationship between his speech and those words. As a result, an FIR was filed last night under various sections against a person associated with the TVK for allegedly 'disrespecting women.' Following that, this morning around 8:30, Thanjavur police had come to arrest the Leader of the Opposition.
This morning at 10:30 a.m., we argued in the High Court that this arrest was illegal and that the FIR itself was illegal, and requested that this be taken up as an urgent case. Taking that into consideration, the High Court had said that it would hear the case before the lunch break.
We explained to the police who had come from Thanjavur the legal principles and standards that could be followed in practice: `The High Court is going to hear this case. Until then, do not make an arrest.'

However, the Thanjavur police, who did not accept that, forcibly arrested the Leader of the Opposition and took him away.
When the case was taken up for hearing at around 1:00 PM, the government side argued, "The Leader of the Opposition has already been arrested; therefore, this anticipatory bail petition is not maintainable."
Then the High Court said, “This Madras High Court has issued interim orders in cases like this. I will hear the detailed hearing of this at 2:15 p.m.” After that, when the case was taken up again at 2:15 p.m., the government lawyer said, “The police have no intention of taking the opposition leader to court and remanding him. We will question him at the police station itself, record his statement, and then release him on station bail.”

Regarding that, the Chennai High Court said, “Since there is an important legislative assembly session tomorrow, it ordered that the hearing be completed today itself and that he be released on bail today itself.”
“They had planned to somehow arrest the Leader of the Opposition and ensure that he should not enter the Assembly tomorrow. But, as usual, through a court order, dictatorship has once again been prevented in Tamil Nadu,” he said.
