Perambalur: Former DMK MLA M Rajkumar surrendered before the Perambalur police on Thursday night in connection with the mysterious death of a 15-year-old girl from Kerala, who was employed in his house here. The police had earlier registered a case in this connection and named the MLA as the first accused.
According to sources, C Sathya (15), daughter of Chandran and Suseela of Peermedu in Idukki district of Kerala, was sent for work at Rajkumars house in Perambalur on June 23. On June 28, Sathya is said to have contacted Chandran and told him that she did not want to work in the former MLAs house anymore.
Meanwhile, on June 29, Chandran received a call from Perambalur informing him that Sathya was not well and had been admitted to a private hospital in Perambalur and later shifted to another private hospital in Tiruchy. Since her parents could not afford to get her treated in a private hospital, they shifted her to the Theni Government Medical College Hospital on July 4.
However, Sathya died on July 6 at the hospital. The body was handed over to her parents on July 7 and brought to Idukki. It is said that her relatives noticed injuries on the body and alleged that she could have undergone physical harassment at the MLAs house....
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01:06 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: The crackdown on DMK continues in Tamil Nadu as vigilance and anti-corruption bureau teams on Thursday raided DMK leader TM Anbarasan's properties. Anbarasan, a former minister, is also a district secretary for the DMK. TM Anbarasan is the ninth DMK leader to be targeted since July this year. The vigilance officials on Tuesday conducted raids at properties of former DMK minister K Ponmudi and his relatives. The raids...
08:16 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Chennai: Union Minister and DMK leader MK Alagiri on Sunday lashed out at a section of media for publishing 'false' reports about his family's wealth to tarnish his image and said he would initiate legal action against it. In a statement, Alagiri, Madurai-based son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, said all the properties of his family members were legally acquired and had been accounted. "All the properties acquired by my...
08:13 AM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: In the latest crackdown on Karunanidhi's aides by the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu, two DMK leaders were arrested in Erode on land grab charges on Thursday. The mayor of Erode, Kumar Murugesh and former DMK minister NKKP Raja were arrested. NKKP Raja was minister for textiles and handloom during the DMK regime and was forced to resign and arrested over land grab charges. The arrests comes close...
08:56 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Madurai: Union Minister MK Alagiri's personal assistant (political) and DMK leader Pottu Suresh was on Monday detained under the Goondas Act following a series of land grabbing cases against him today. Suresh, alias Suresh Babu, was detained following instructions from District Collector U Sagayam, police said. A fresh land grabbing case was also filed against Suresh today on a complaint filed by one Amarnat alleging that the DMK leader had...
09:27 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Chennai: DMK leader and Union Minister MK Alagiri today said his party did not expect the Congress to "come back" for a possible patch up, a day after DMK announced pulling out of the Union cabinet following failure of seat sharing talks with Congress. "We don't expect Congress to come back," Alagiri, elder son of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, told reporters at the party headquarters here responding to queries if...
07:46 PM, Mar 06, 2011
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Government on a petition seeking CBI probe into the alleged attack on former minister and AIADMK leader C V Shanmugam and his party men in 2006, in which his car driver was killed. Shanmugam, then Minister for Education and Commercial Tax, and his party men were attacked while he chatted with party activists in front of...
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