Overview
- Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma dismissed Shankar’s plea to unseal his Chennai office and retrieve devices, directing him to seek relief before the judicial magistrate.
- The Supreme Court reiterated that writ courts are not a catch‑all remedy, upholding the Madras High Court’s December 30 direction to use BNSS Sections 105–107 for contesting seizures.
- A Madras High Court bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and M. Jothiraman has reserved orders on Tamil Nadu Police’s bid to cancel Shankar’s interim bail, with pronouncement scheduled for January 23.
- In submissions supporting bail cancellation, police alleged Shankar posted lengthy videos, threatened witnesses and investigators, and failed to cooperate, while the court mooted an expert medical board to assess his health claims.
- Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava rebuked Shankar’s counsel for alleging judicial bias, refusing to entertain such accusations and noting recusal was declined by the bench hearing the bail matter.