“You cannot blackmail the Bench too,” Justice P Velmurugan of #MadrasHighCourt tells Savukku Shankar while refusing to recuse from hearing a plea to cancel his bail though the YouTuber had accused the judge of bias. “I’ve never recused from hearing any case in my judicial career spanning over 20 years (including 11 years as a district judge & nine years as a High Court judge) and will not recuse from this case too,” the senior judge says. @THChennai

by Sekar Reporter · January 19, 2026