Sources have stated that a special court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of an alleged middleman arrested in the Election Commission bribery case involving AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dhinakaran. Meanwhile special Judge Poonam Chaudhry said it was not appropriate to grant bail to Sukesh Chandrashekar at this stage as it was a serious crime and he could tamper with the evidence.
The court also said the investigation of the Delhi Police Crime Branch was going on and the agency was probing the recovered CD containing alleged conversation between Mr. Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar, who was arrested on May 16. Further the court, which was scheduled to hear the bail pleas of Dhinakaran and his close aide Mallikarjuna on Monday, listed the matter for May 26 after the AIADMK faction leader’s counsel sought an adjournment.
Currently Chandrashekar had filed the bail
application claiming he was falsely implicated and made a scapegoat in the case
and that he was ready to join the probe and the police opposed his bail plea
saying they were probing the recovered CD allegedly containing telephonic
conversation of Chandrashekar and Mr. Dhinakaran. Moreover it said the
allegations were grave and they have to make more arrests in the case.
Both the accused had earlier refused consent to give their voice samples to the police to compare it with those contained in the CD recovered during the investigation. Mr. Dhinakaran has been accused of allegedly arranging the money from undisclosed sources and getting it transferred from Chennai to Delhi through illegal channels. Mallikarjuna was arrested for allegedly facilitating an Rs 50 crore deal between Mr. Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar.
