The New Indian Express ·
TN Journalist Damodharan Prakash held for posting defamatory video about woman YouTube host
CHENNAI: The Adambakkam police on Wednesday arrested Damodharan Prakash, a journalist and a YouTuber, for allegedly uploading a defamatory video making false and objectionable claims about a woman YouTuber.
As per the complaint, Prakash, who works with a Tamil weekly allegedly released the video with an objectionable title on the ‘King 24 X 7’ YouTube channel in January this year.
The video allegedly displayed the woman’s photographs and made false, defamatory and objectionable claims about her personal life. Although the video was uploaded in January, the woman lodged a complaint at the commissioner’s office in Vepery only in June, police sources told TNIE.
