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The Supreme Court, on Monday, April 1, said that Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin cannot claim that he was in a position similar to the media when seeking to club criminal cases
filed against him in the case pertaining to his _remarks about Sanatan Dharma_. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was hearing a plea filed by Udhayanidhi seeking to club
the first information reports (FIR) against him, registered in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka in the Sanatana Dharma row. The bench had
earlier _expressed displeasure and slammed him for ‘abusing his rights’_. Udhayanidhi, while seeking the court to club the cases against him, referred to the judgements by the top court in
cases, including that of journalist Mohammed Zubair and Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami. The court took an exception to this and said that Udhayanidhi cannot claim relief comparing himself
to journalists. "After all, you have made the statements voluntarily. And the cases you cited - those were news media people who were working as per diktats of their bosses to get TRPs.
You cannot compare yourself to the media," the bench had said, _Bar and Bench reported_.