Two days after the Supreme Court quashed all the 23 cases against Kushboo for her interview to a magazine on pre-marital sex, the Madras High Court on Thursday quashed criminal proceedings pending before magistrate courts in Tamil Nadu against Suhasini Mani Ratnam, who had spoken up for Kushboo.

Justice C S Karnan quashed the proceedings against Suhasini, who came under attack from some organisations for making comments on pre-marital sex in a magazine interview. Earlier, in her petitions, filed by counsel C Seethapathy, the actress sought to quash the proceedings before the lower courts.

Expressing happiness over the verdict, Suhasini said, “Kushboo was courageous in facing the cases against her. I am equally courageous. I got summons every day. The situation I faced then was traumatic. People around me were so scared.”

In her interview years before, Suhasini apologised on behalf of Tamils to Kushboo who was facing a slew of cases for her remarks. “I was neither in agreement nor disagreement with Kushboo's remarks on pre-marital sex,” she said.