Ravi, a volunteer of the erstwhile India Against Corruption (IAC) and the secretary of Puducherry unit of Aam Aadmi Party presently, was charged by the Puducherry police under Section 66A for his tweets on Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, in October 2012.
His had tweeted that Karti amassed more wealth than All India Congress Committee chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.
He tweeted: 'Got the report that Karti chidambaram (Union minister P Chidambaram's son) has amassed more wealth than vadra (UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son in law)'.
In another tweet, he declared that 'as a Tamilian I am feeling bad to have sent an arrogant P Chidambaram to national politics'.
Karti lodged a complaint against Ravi following which Ravi was picked up from his house in Puducherry on the morning of October 30, 2012. He was produced before a judicial magistrate and released on bail the same day.
Ravi recalled that policemen, who kept him under custody until evening, were not even aware of the existence of the micro-blogging site. But they told him he was detained for unnecessarily 'troubling' an influential person.
"I feel vindicated," he said. "Freedom of speech in the country has been restored. People can now use social media for a good cause," he added.
Ravi filed a petition before the chief judicial magistrate court in Puducherry about six months ago praying the court to quash the charges filed against him under Section 66A.
"Prima facie the case against me is not tenable," he said.
The police have filed a counter, and the next hearing will be held on March 27.
"Mine is a classic case of misuse of power. I was pretty confident that I have committed no wrong and can prove my innocence," he said.
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