Overview
- The bench of Justices B. V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan set aside the Madras High Court order and directed that the FIR be quashed.
- Seeman filed an affidavit offering an unconditional apology, retracting allegations against the actor, and pledging no contact.
- The complainant withdrew her complaint and FIR in an affidavit that also commits to making no statements about Seeman in any media.
- The Court recorded assurances that members of Seeman’s Naam Tamilar Katchi would refrain from remarks about the complainant, following a request from her counsel.
- The ruling ends a case that began with a 2011 FIR citing IPC Sections 417, 420, 354, 376, 506(1) and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act after an alleged relationship from 2007 to 2011.