Chennai, Feb. 16 -- A Chennai court has found Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) functionary and speaker Shivaji Krishnamurthy guilty of derogatory comments on a public stage against Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Khushbu Sundar, those aware of the matter said.

On February 12, P Revathi, the 10th metropolitan magistrate of Chennai was sentenced the DMK speaker to three years imprisonment and fined Rs.20,000 for his comments made in 2023. The DMK leader made the statements in June 2023, in the aftermath of the Governor walking out of the assembly in January of the same year without reading his customary speech. Using expletives and derogatory remarks, he criticised the governor for omitting certain words...