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Madras HC cancels Dayanidhi's anticipatory bail, tells him to surrender to CBI in 3 days | |
| Chennai, Aug 10 (PTI): The Madras high court on Monday cancelled the interim anticipatory bail granted to former Union telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and directed him to surrender before the Central Bureau of Investigation within three days. “Interim anticipatory bail is cancelled,” Justice S. Vaidhyananthan said while granting Maran three days to surrender before the CBI, which is investigating the case, relating to a charge that he had illegally installed a 300-line telephone exchange at his residence. The judge was passing the order after hearing arguments on the CBI plea for cancellation of Maran's interim anticipatory bail and also on the former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister's petition that the interim bail may be made a permanent one. Fearing arrest, Maran had moved the court and Justice R. Subbiah had on June 30 granted him anticipatory bail for six weeks subject to the condition that he appears before CBI on July 1 and cooperates in the investigation. The CBI later moved the high court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail on the ground that he was not cooperating in the investigation. During the arguments in the previous hearings, Maran had contended that the CBI was seeking cancellation of his bail to malign him. P.S. Raman, counsel for Maran, had contended that no evidence had been provided so far to prove the allegations and wondered how BSNL telephone lines could be used to telecast videos. “How can you telecast cinema with telephone lines?” he had asked. Raman claimed that the CBI, with an intention of maligning Maran, was alleging he had not cooperated with the probe, that too, after the rejection of security clearance to the Sun Group, owned by his family, by the Home Ministry. He also said that, while the alleged fraud took place in 2011, according to the CBI, the FIR was filed only in 2013. Additional Solicitor-General G. Rajagopalan, who had appeared on behalf of CBI, however, said Maran’s custodial interrogation was important to find out the real beneficiary of the “fraud” and the quantum of loss caused to the exchequer |
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