Chennai, April 14 (IANS) The Greater Chennai Police have granted a three-day parole to YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar, also known as A. Shankar, who is currently detained under the Tamil Nadu Goondas Act of 1982, following the death of his mother, A. Kamala. Shankar, who was lodged at Puzhal Central Prison, had been served with a detention order under the Goondas Act on April 10, 2026. The preventive detention law allows authorities to detain individuals to prevent activities deemed prejudicial …
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Chennai, March 25 (IANS) The Madras High Court has granted liberty to the Greater Chennai City Police (GCCP) to arrest YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar alias A. Shankar, if his custody is required in connection with an extortion case, while refusing to extend the interim bail earlier granted to him on medical grounds. A Division Bench comprising Justices P. Velmurugan and M. Jothiraman declined to prolong the three-month interim bail that had been granted on December 27, 2025, by a vacation Ben…
Chennai, Jan 21 (IANS) The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, on Wednesday strongly reprimanded a senior advocate for making allegations of judicial bias against a sitting judge while mentioning a criminal matter involving YouTuber ‘Savukku’ Shankar. The remarks were made when the counsel appeared before the first Division Bench, comprising the Chief Justice and Justice G. Arul Murugan, and complained that Justice P. Velmurugan had been biased against his cli…