Seer case: TN Police questions Cho

Cho Ramaswamy was interrogated in connection with some of the articles published in his weekly in connection with the Sankararaman case.

Political satirist and editor of Tamil weekly Thuglak, Cho S Ramaswamy, was on Monday "interviewed" by a police team from Kancheepuram at his office in Chennai on some articles written by columnist S Gurumurthy on the Sankararaman murder case, which appeared in the weekly recently.

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The team from Vishnu Kanchi police station, which earlier paid a visit to the office of the New Indian Express and made enquiries with its Chairman and Managing Director Manojkumar Sonthalia about some articles carried by the paper written by Gurumurthy, spent over 45-minutes "interviewing him".

Later Cho told reporters that he would continue to publish articles of Gurumurthy.

"If it was illegal, I would not have published it", he said.

Asked whether the police had exceeded their limits by questioning him and others, Cho said that as far as his "interview" was concerned, "I have been cited as a witness. Nothing hostile in it. As far as Gurumurthy is concerned, it is an instance of police harassment. The case has no substance and the charges are flimsy. It will not stand scrutiny of the court," he said.

Cho said in his case, "no intimidation, but in Gurumurthy's case, it is harassment. They interrogated Gurumurthy and all of a sudden all this is happening. It is intriguing. I don't understand it at all".