TTV Dhinakaran accused in EC bribery case
Besides Dhinakaran, alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, long-time friend of Dhinakaran Mallikarjuna, and six others have been named as accused.
New Delhi: The Delhi police have accused AIADMK (Amma) leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran of corruption and conspiracy in a supplementary charge sheet filed before a city court in the Election Commission bribery case.
Additional Sessions Judge Kiran Bansal, before whom the 272-page supplementary charge sheet was filed, is likely to take its cognisance on December 21. Besides Dhinakaran, alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, long-time friend of Dhinakaran Mallikarjuna, and six others have been named as accused.
Dhinakaran, who was not mentioned as an accused in the charge sheet filed by the police in July this year, has now been accused of offences under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of IPC, besides taking gratification by corrupt or illegal means to influence public servant under Prevention of Corruption Act (PC Act). The others have been accused of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and destruction of evidence under the IPC and provisions of the PC Act.
The court had on November 9 asked the Delhi police to file a supplementary charge sheet in the case. The police in its 701-page charge sheet filed on July 14 had claimed that money recovered from Chandrashekar was sent by Dhinakaran through unaccounted channels with the help of other accused persons.