Principal Sessions Judge N Audinathan issued the summons to him on a criminal defamation complaint filed by city Public Prosecutor M L Jegan on behalf of the Chief Minister.
The CPP contended that the words used by Ramasamy were "highly defamatory, scandalous, disparaging, insuinating and highly provocative."
They had deliberately been made with the intention of causing harm to her reputation and her administration, which constituted an offence of defamation under Section 499 of IPC (defamation).