M Karunanidhi to appear before court

In a statement here, he said he would personally appear before the Principal Sessions Court at 10.30am on January 18. 

He said he had lifted a part of an article published by leading Tamil magazine on the topic ‘Four year achievements of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’ and issued it as a statement, following which a defamation case was filed against him by the government and the magazine.