Savukku shankar

The Madras High Court on Thursday (September 15) found activist and YouTuber A Shankar, popularly known as ‘Savukku’ Shankar, guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment for his remarks about the higher judiciary. The HC had taken suo moto cognizance of Shankar’s statement during an interview with Youtube channel Red Pix on July 22, where he claimed that the “entire higher judiciary is plagued by corruption”. The judges said that Shankar’s statements were “scandalous” and that they “denigrate and deride the institution of judiciary.” Claiming that he did not express regret or offer any apology, the court refused to entertain his request for a suspended sentence until he files an appeal with the apex court, and directed that Shankar be immediately taken into custody and lodged in Madurai central prison. What is criminal contempt, who can be found guilty of it? According to the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, contempt of court can either be civil contempt or criminal contempt. The former means wilful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court, or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court. Criminal contempt, on the other hand, means the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise) of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which (i) scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court...

தமிழ் மொழி வளர்ச்சி மற்றும் இலக்கிய பங்களிப்புக்காக சாகித்ய அகாடமி விருது, கலைஞர் செம்மொழி விருது அல்லது சர்வதேச அங்கீகாரம் பெற்ற விருதுகள் ஏதேனும் பெற்றிருந்தால், அவர்களுக்கு தமிழக அரசு சார்பில் ‘கனவு இல்லம்’ என்கிற திட்டத்தின் கீழ் அவர்கள் விரும்பிய இடத்தில் வீடு வழங்கப்படும் என அறிவிக்கப்பட்டு இருந்தது. தமிழக முதல்வர் மு.க.ஸ்டாலின் தான் இந்த அறிவிப்பை வெளியிட்டு இருந்தார். தமிழக அரசின் இந்த திட்டத்தின் கீழ், எழுத்தாளர்கள் புவியரசு, பூமணி, இமயம், ஈரோடு தமிழன்பன், சுந்தரமூர்த்தி, மோகராசு ஆகிய 6 பேருக்கு கடந்தாண்டு அவர்களது விருப்பத்திற்கு ஏற்ப சென்னை மற்றும் கோயம்புத்தூரில் வீடுகள் வழங்கப்பட்டு இருந்தன. அந்த வகையில் தற்போது கள்ளிக்காட்டு இதிகாசத்திற்காக சாகித்ய அகாடமி விருது பெற்ற கவிஞர் வைரமுத்துவுக்கும் கனவு இல்லம் திட்டத்தின் கீழ் வீடு வழங்கப்படும் என தமிழக அரசு அறிவித்து இருக்கிறது. இதையும் படியுங்கள்... தமிழக அரசின் இந்த அறிவிப்பு பிரபல பத்திரிகையாளரும், அரசியல் விமர்சகருமான சவுக்கு சங்கர் கடும் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளார். இதுகுறித்து அவர் டுவிட்டரில் பதிவிட்டுள்ளதாவது : “வீடு இல்லாம தெருவுலயா இருக்காரு? இவருக்கு எதுக்கு கனவு இல்லம் வீடு? 2006ல சம்பாரிச்சது கொஞ்ச நஞ்சம் அல்ல. பெரியார் படத்துல ஒரு பாட்டுக்கு ரூ.5 லட்சம் வாங்குன பெரிய மனுசன். அந்த படமே அரசு மானியத்துல எடுத்துது. இந்த அரசாங்கத்துக்கு துளி கூட சூடு, சொரணை கிடையாதா? என சரமாரியாக சாடி உள்ளார். அதேபோல் மற்றொரு பதிவில், வைரமுத்துவுக்கு ஏற்கனவே உள்ள 3 வீடுகளின் விவரங்களை வெளியிட்டுள்ள சவுக்கு சங்கர், கவிஞருக்கு இந்த மூணு வீடு போதாதா? கொஞ்சமாச்சும் மனசாட்சி இருக்கா உங்களுக்கு? யார் அப்பா வீட்டு பணம்? என முதல்வ...

CHENNAI: The After Shankar was placed under suspension in 2010 following a report submitted by a commission of inquiry against him in connection with the alleged audio tape leaks between former state intelligence officer Jaffer Sait and DMK functionaries. As the YouTuber Savukku A Shankar had worked in the directorate of vigilance and anti-corrpution (DV&AC) as a police constable, the department director, T S Kandasamy, a DGP-rank officer, issued the notice on Friday. As Shankar is now detained at the Cuddalore central prison, the notice was issued to him through the prison officials. But, Shankar refused to accept the notice. Following this the prison officials pasted the notice outside his cell. In view of the fact that Shankar, a state government servant, is now detained in jail, the police department is planning to terminate him from service soon. An officer said that during his suspension period, Shankar had been enjoying all the perks and benefits due to him from the state government. Initially, he had been receiving 50% of his salary and later it was increased to 75%, the officer said. While initiating the criminal contempt case against Shankar, Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madras high court mentioned that Shankar had been receiving government salary.

The Madurai bench of Madras High court on Thursday convicted a popular whistleblower and a YouTuber, Achimuthu Shankar aka ‘Savukku’ Shankar, in a suo motu contempt petition for his comments about corruption in higher judiciary. Shankar has been sentenced to six months imprisonment. Shankar was immediately taken into custody by the police and later taken to the Madurai Medical college hospital, before being lodged in prison. A division bench of justices G.R.Swaminathan and B.Pugalendhi had earlier this month initiated contempt proceedings against Shankar for his statement saying, “The higher judiciary is riddled with corruption.” The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had taken a suo motu cognisance of the allegations made by Shankar on YouTube channels on July 22. In a 44-page order, Justices G.R.Swaminathan and B.Pugalenthi said that “if the contemnor had realised his mistakes and apologised, we would have closed the proceedings. The contemnor stuck to his position. In fact, his act during the last few weeks would constitute for acts of contempt on their own.” The bench while sentencing him for six months imprisonment, recalled the earlier cases against him for his act and comments against Justice C.T.Selvam and also the pending CB-CID cases. The court also observed that Shankar, as an employee of the state government, “is governed by conduct rules.” “The contemnor is a suspended employee of the state government. He is receiving a subsistence allowance for the last 1...

This section needs additional citations for Please help ( January 2021) ( The website publishes articles anonymously, they say, about corrupt government employees, politicians, judges and journalists. It was started in September 2010. It does not give any information about the owner(s) or the publisher(s) of posts on website but is said to have been run by Achimuthu Shankar, a former lower division clerk in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption. road rage. Thereafter he converted his blog into a website called, Savukku to expose corruption. The first blog post was published anonymously on the website in September 2010 and it presently has around 960 posts since then including the In 2010-2011, when On 1 February 2014, the website had publicly posted four tapes Block [ ] Mahalakshmi, an advocate and Sun TV newsreader had lodged a defamation case against the website for writing about her personal life, that she claimed have degraded her reputation. She later filed a writ petition in the On 28 February 2014, the Madras High Court ordered the Joint Secretary, Cyber Law Division of Union Department of Information Technology to block the website within ten days and called other affected individuals to lodge separate police cases, on hearing the writ petition filed by Mahalakshmi. The reputation and status of not less than half a dozen judges, very many advocates, IAS and IPS officers stand attacked and damaged at the hands of this vituperative site. The contents of th...

Chennai police on Monday filed an FIR against leading media outlet Vikatan, whistleblower Savukku Sankar and popular YouTuber The FIR was registered on a complaint from G Square's chief compliance officer V. Purushotham Kumar over the weekend. On Sunday, Mylapore police arrested Kevin, a Chennai-based businessman, based on the same complaint. He has been remanded in judicial custody. In his complaint, Kumar claimed Kevin had threatened to publish false news against the company if they did not pay a bribe of Rs 50 lakhs per month. Kumar also alleged in the complaint that Kevin threatened to use popular social media influencers to spread false news against the company on Twitter and YouTube. G Square has been at the eye of the storm over allegations that it has close ties with the family members of state Chief Minister and DMK Supremo M.K Stalin. The company, which aggregates land parcels for selling big corporates and setting up IT parks (besides several luxury housing projects), has seen a meteoric rise in its fortunes in the last couple of years. In April 2021, the Income Tax department officials raided the residence of Bala Ramajayam, the managing director of G Square Realtor's Private Limited. IT department sleuths also searched premises belonging to a real-estate firm. According to Opposition Party Condemn Police Action. Several opposition parties, including AIADMK, BJP and NTK, have condemned the police action against Vikatan, Savukku Shankar and Maridhas. Edapadi Pal...

Whistleblower and popular political commentator ‘Savukku’ Shankar on Saturday walked out of the Central Prison in Cuddalore, two days after a local court granted bail to him in four cases registered by Crime Branch’s Cyber Crime Wing between 2020 and 2021. Shankar was lodged in Cuddalore prison on September 15, 2022 after the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court awarded him six months imprisonment for contempt of court. However, the Supreme Court on November 11 suspended the six months jail sentence and ordered Shankar’s release from prison. Hours before the SC order, the Tamil Nadu police had on November 10 arrested Shankar in four old cases registered in 2020 and 2021. On November 17, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Egmore granted bail to Shankar in all the four cases. After completing formalities, the prison authorities released Shankar on Saturday morning. He was welcomed at the prison gate by journalists. While granting bail, the court asked Shankar to appear before investigators for 15 days and not to comment on the four cases in interviews to the media. Shankar, a suspended employee of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), runs a web portal under the name Savukku and is a regular on Tamil YouTube channels. He was arrested in 2008 by the then DMK government for allegedly leaking a tape containing audio conversations of two top officials. After his release from the jail, Shankar became a whistleblower and exposed several scams.