The Tamil Nadu government has begun the new year undeterred, filing two criminal defamation complaints against TOI and Dinamalar for their coverage of the Chennai floods. In Dec. 2015 the Supreme Court had observed that the bulk of defamation cases in the country are filed in Tamil Nadu. The city public prosecutor, M L Jegan, who is the CM's man for filing such prosecutions, moved the complaints on her behalf. The Times story in its December 9 edition on the delay in the decision to open the sluice gates causing the flood trouble, invited the CM's ire. Dinamalar had said that the TN govt. had converted torrential rains into floods. Both reports were termed malicious and defamatory.