New Delhi: A special court on Thursday directed AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dinakaran and an alleged middleman, arrested in an Election Commission bribery case, to respond to Delhi Police's plea for voice samples.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry asked the counsel for Mr Dinakaran and Sukesh Chandrashekar to file their replies on May 15.
Delhi Police's Crime Branch submitted before the court that they needed the voice samples for their probe into the Rs 50-crore graft case.
It said they had a CD containing audio recordings of phone conversations between Mr Dinakaran and Mr Chandrashekar and others, and they wanted to compare the audios with the voice samples.
After the counsel for the two accused sought time to go through the application, the court listed it for May 15.
Mr Dinakaran and Mr Chandrashekar were also brought to the court from judicial custody in pursuance to its production warrants issued earlier.
Meanwhile, the court also extended till Monday Mr Chandrashekar's judicial custody, which would have expired tomorrow.
Mr Dinakaran, his close aide Mallikarjuna and alleged hawala operator Nathu Singh are also in judicial custody till May 15.
Mr Dinakaran was arrested here on the night of April 25 after four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe an unidentified Election Commission official to get the undivided AIADMK's 'two leaves' election symbol. His faction hoped to obtain the symbol for a by-election to the RK Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu, which was later cancelled by the Election Commission (EC).
The EC had frozen the AIADMK's symbol after two factions of the party -- one led by Mr Dinakaran's aunt Sasikala and the other by former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam -- staked a claim to it.
Mr Dinakaran has been accused of allegedly arranging the amount from undisclosed sources and getting it transferred from Chennai to Delhi through illegal channels.
Mallikarjuna was arrested for allegedly facilitating the Rs 50-crore deal between Mr Dinakaran and Mr Chandrashekar, who was arrested on April 16.
Singh was held on the night of April 27 with the police claiming that he was given Rs 1 crore to hand over to Mr Chandrashekar. The money was meant to be paid as a bribe to someone in the Election Commission, the police had told the court.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry asked the counsel for Mr Dinakaran and Sukesh Chandrashekar to file their replies on May 15.
Delhi Police's Crime Branch submitted before the court that they needed the voice samples for their probe into the Rs 50-crore graft case.
After the counsel for the two accused sought time to go through the application, the court listed it for May 15.
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Meanwhile, the court also extended till Monday Mr Chandrashekar's judicial custody, which would have expired tomorrow.
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Mr Dinakaran was arrested here on the night of April 25 after four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe an unidentified Election Commission official to get the undivided AIADMK's 'two leaves' election symbol. His faction hoped to obtain the symbol for a by-election to the RK Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu, which was later cancelled by the Election Commission (EC).
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Mr Dinakaran has been accused of allegedly arranging the amount from undisclosed sources and getting it transferred from Chennai to Delhi through illegal channels.
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Singh was held on the night of April 27 with the police claiming that he was given Rs 1 crore to hand over to Mr Chandrashekar. The money was meant to be paid as a bribe to someone in the Election Commission, the police had told the court.
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