Chennai, Nov. 3 -- Reprimanding the Tamil Nadu police and rapping the Vijay government over a case registered against a DMK ward councilor for making derogatory statements about the Chief Minister and the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), Madras High Court granted anticipatory bail to her, observing, "The office is not so fragile that a Ward Councilor's invective at a party meeting can shake it.""The State diminishes the office it claims to protect when it answers words of that kind with the machinery of arrest," Justice N Ramesh further observed, taking issue with the FIR registered against D Sudha, adding, "The machinery of criminal law could not be deployed merely because political speech offended those holding public office. The po...