It does not give any information about the owner(s) or the publisher(s) of posts on website but is said to have been run by Achimuthu Shankar, a former lower division clerk in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption.

[3] In 2008, Shankar allegedly leaked the transcript of a taped conversation between S. K. Upadhyay, then director of DVAC, and L. K. Tripathi, then chief secretary of the state to the Deccan Chronicle English daily newspaper.

[3][4] In 2010-2011, when Aam Aadmi Party leader and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan released the tapes of alleged conversation between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi and the then Tamil Nadu police chief of intelligence, Jaffar Sait, it was said to have made public by the website three days earlier.

[6] Mahalakshmi, an advocate and Sun TV newsreader had lodged a defamation case against the website for writing about her personal life, that she claimed have degraded her reputation.

[7] On 28 February 2014, the Madras High Court ordered the Joint Secretary, Cyber Law Division of Union Department of Information Technology to block the website within ten days and called other affected individuals to lodge separate police cases, on hearing the writ petition filed by Mahalakshmi.

[8][9][10] The court said that, The reputation and status of not less than half a dozen judges, very many advocates, IAS and IPS officers stand attacked and damaged at the hands of this vituperative site.

The contents of the posts in the website are so grossly demeaning, so obnoxious and so harmful that they are not worthy of being brought in print in an order of this court.

[4] The website continued to host mirrors of the site Savukku, this time naming the Judge of the Madras High Court who is hearing the case.

[11] On 28 February 2014, the website was blocked on Madras High Court orders after a writ for defamation was filed by a Sun TV employee, Mahalakshmi.

In a different matter, Shankar was charged under Sections 66, 70 and 72 of the Information Technology Act, alleged to have leaked the conversation between former Chief Secretary to Government and former Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption.

[6] P. Sundarajan, a lawyer opined that, this is most unfortunate, and the particular Judge should refrain himself from hearing the case because he was also written about by the website and this order is nothing but a mockery of justice.

An audio of conversation between, Kalaignar TV MD, Sharad Kumar and former TN Intelligence Chief Jaffer Sait IPS.

[14] The website was the first to expose the arithmetical errors in the judgment of Justice CR Kumarasamy, acquitting Selvi Jayalalitha, CM of Tamil Nadu in the month of May 2015 [15] In 2008, Shankar was arrested for allegedly releasing a recording of a discussion between two IAS officials, L.K.

[5] On 24 July 2014, Following the Madras High Court orders, Central Crime Branch arrested Pothi Kalimuthu on charge of hosting the website.

The CCB officers had to make a request to the France Telecom through the Department of Telecommunications to reveal the address of the owner of the website domain.

[25] The court instructed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to immediately remove the "offensive interviews" and the article.

[30][31] Shankar's remarks, which were intended to highlight the abuse of power by superior officers, was twisted into a causus belli to suppress him as he was exposing popular politicians and corruption in police.

Despite being a journalist and accused of a non-violent crime, he wasbeen detained under the Goondas Act, a stringent law usually reserved for habitual offenders, which allows for preventive detention.