Delhi police arrest TTV in EC official bribe case
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Move Comes 3 Days After Questioning Him
After questioning him for three days in the Election Commission bribery case, the Delhi police's crime branch arrested AIADMK (Amma) deputy general secretary and V K Sasikala's nephew T T V Dhinakaran late on Tuesday night.His longtime friend Mallikarjuna was also arrested after being questioned for the second day on the trot, police said.
Mallikarjuna had been accompanying Dhinakaran everywhere ever since Sukesh Chandrasekar, the middleman in the bribery case, was arrested, police said.
Dhinakaran was confronted with a set of recordings of a telephonic conversation which allegedly took place between him and Sukesh Chandrasekar. Most of these recordings were made by Sukesh himself, it is learned.
His personal assistant is said to have given police a statement indicting Dhinakaran for attempting to bribe Election Commission officials to get the two leaves symbol for the party .
Dhinakaran was questioned for around nine hours on Saturday and Sunday after he joined investigations in the bribery case registered against him by Delhi Police.
Dhinakaran arrived in Delhi on Saturday . The inves tigating team had prepared a set of 50 questions on the basis of interrogation of alleged middleman Sukes h.
Dhinakaran, who was appointed deputy general secretary by AIADMK chief V S Sasikala, has been isolated in his party amid moves to merge rival factions led by Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his predeces sor O Panneerselvam.
A section of the ruling AIADMK (Amma) recently revolted against the SasikalaDhinakaran leadership. The development came after Panneerselvam, who is leading the rival faction, demanded the ouster of Sasikala and Dhinakaran as well as other members of their family from the party as a condition for merger talks.
Removing Sasikala from party caught in legalities: Vaithilingam
As stalemate in the merger talks between rival factions contin ued over the demand of the O Panneerselvam group on re moving the Sasikala clan from AIADMK, Rajya Sabha MP and head of the Edappadi K Palaniswami negotiat ing panel, R Vaithilingam on Tuesday said the issue was embroiled in legalities. In an interview to TOI, Vaithilingam said every issue could be sorted when the OPS faction comes to the negotiating table. “We are open-hearted. Only when they turn up for talks, everything can be set right,“ he said. P 7
Mallikarjuna had been accompanying Dhinakaran everywhere ever since Sukesh Chandrasekar, the middleman in the bribery case, was arrested, police said.
Dhinakaran was confronted with a set of recordings of a telephonic conversation which allegedly took place between him and Sukesh Chandrasekar. Most of these recordings were made by Sukesh himself, it is learned.
His personal assistant is said to have given police a statement indicting Dhinakaran for attempting to bribe Election Commission officials to get the two leaves symbol for the party .
Dhinakaran was questioned for around nine hours on Saturday and Sunday after he joined investigations in the bribery case registered against him by Delhi Police.
Dhinakaran arrived in Delhi on Saturday . The inves tigating team had prepared a set of 50 questions on the basis of interrogation of alleged middleman Sukes h.
Dhinakaran, who was appointed deputy general secretary by AIADMK chief V S Sasikala, has been isolated in his party amid moves to merge rival factions led by Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his predeces sor O Panneerselvam.
A section of the ruling AIADMK (Amma) recently revolted against the SasikalaDhinakaran leadership. The development came after Panneerselvam, who is leading the rival faction, demanded the ouster of Sasikala and Dhinakaran as well as other members of their family from the party as a condition for merger talks.
Removing Sasikala from party caught in legalities: Vaithilingam
As stalemate in the merger talks between rival factions contin ued over the demand of the O Panneerselvam group on re moving the Sasikala clan from AIADMK, Rajya Sabha MP and head of the Edappadi K Palaniswami negotiat ing panel, R Vaithilingam on Tuesday said the issue was embroiled in legalities. In an interview to TOI, Vaithilingam said every issue could be sorted when the OPS faction comes to the negotiating table. “We are open-hearted. Only when they turn up for talks, everything can be set right,“ he said. P 7
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