Dinakaran case: Police quiz men on cash trail trajectory
Delhi court remands Tamil leader to five days in police custody
The Delhi Police has questioned several men suspected to have been linked to the money trail in the Election Commission bribery case in which AIADMK (Amma) leader T T V Dinakaran was arrested.
After bringing Dinakaran from Delhi and conducting searches at his residence here, the Crime Branch police personnel also grilled some others who allegedly had knowledge about the money transaction, the police sources said.
Dinakaran was arrested on April 25 for allegedly attempting to bribe an unidentified EC official to get the undivided AIADMK’s ‘two leaves’ election symbol for his faction.
The police had earlier arrested Sukesh Chandrasekar, who had allegedly struck a deal for Rs500 million to help the AIADMK (Amma) faction keep the two leaves symbol, and seized Rs13 million from him.
A Delhi court had remanded Dinakaran to five days’ police custody following which he was brought here.
The Delhi police after questioning the suspects asked some of them to appear again at the Central Government Office Complex, ‘Rajaji Bhawan,’ at Besant Nagar here, they said.
Besides, the police team visited various areas, including Adambakkam and Kolapakkam here, to question some persons, Kanakaraj, a driver employed by the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha’s Kodanad Estate, died in a road accident yesterday morning in Salem district, police said.
According to the police, a car hit Kanakaraj who had been riding a two-wheeler. He died on the way to the hospital.
The death of Kanakaraj has deepened the mystery of the murder of the Nilgiris district’s Kodanad Estate’s security guard a couple of days ago. The police were on the lookout for two persons — Kanakaraj and Syan.
Curiously, Syan while travelling in a car with his family in Palakkad, Kerala was in an accident and was in a critical condition.
His wife and five-year-old daughter died in the accident. Their car rammed into a stationary lorry. whose identity disclosed.
The sources said that evidence was being gathered to sequence the Chennai-Delhi money trail, its alleged link to Dinakaran, and how cash was routed through alleged hawala operators including Faisal and Naresh. The latter was arrested has not been yesterday. Besides the physical aspect involving the transfer, the source of the money, proof of cash transfer, and related transactions were being looked into.
With the arrest of Naresh, it was now only about “joining the dots”, sources said. - PTI