An FIR has been registered against yesteryear newsreader and actor famously called as TV Varadarajan for releasing a video on social media about shortage of beds in Tamil Nadu for treating COVID19 patients.
Varadarajan had shared a video in social media warning people about the shortage of beds to treat COVID patients in Chennai. He has also narrated an example of his close relative being denied a bed. “People should not be lethargic that they will not get infected for corona, there are no beds anywhere in Chennai. They have struggled a lot to get admitted to the hospital. They spoke to MD, top government officers, but they didn’t get a bed, this is the situation”, he said in his controversial video.
TN Health Minister Vijayabaskar later rebutted the claims of Varadarajan in a press conference and accused him of spreading false information.
An FIR has been registered against the actor under various sections of the IPC and the Central crime branch of police has also invoked the epidemics act and disaster management act against the actor. Actor Varadarajan has been booked under 153, 505(1)(b), 188, section 3 of the epidemic diseases act, 54 of the disaster management act.