A court in Tamilnadu on Tuesday issued arrest warrants against DMDK leader Vijayakanth and his wife Premalatha after they repeatedly failed to appear before it in a defamation case filed against them for making 'defamatory' remarks against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

Principal District Judge Alamelu Natarajan in Tirupur ordered the arrest warrants against the two as they failed to appear before the court for the past three hearings and did not turn up on Tuesday also.

Public Prosecutor K N Subramaniam had filed the case against Vijayakanth and Premalatha for allegedly making defamatory remarks against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at a public meeting in Palladam on November 6, 2015.