NEW DELHI: A special court has directed AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dinakaran and an alleged middleman to respond to Delhi Police's plea for voice samples. Delhi Police's Crime Branch submitted that they needed the voice samples for their probe into a £5 million graft case. It added that they had a CD containing audio recordings of phone conversations between Dinakaran, Chandrashekaran and others, and wanted to compare them with some voice samples.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry asked the counsel for Dinakaran and Sukesh Chandrashekar to file their replies soon. After the counsel for both accused sought time to go through the application, the court listed the date to 15. Both Dinakaran and Chandrashekaran were also brought to the court from judicial custody in pursuance to its production warrants issued earlier. The former was arrested on April 25, four days after questioning for alleged attempt to bribe an unidentified Election Commission official to get the undivided AIADMK's 'Two Leaves' election symbol. The EC had frozen the symbol after both factions of the party- one led by Sasikala and the other by former chief minister O Pannerselvam, staked claims to it.
Dinakaran is accused of allegedly arranging the amount from undisclosed sources and getting it transferred from Chennai to Delhi through illegal channels. His close aide Mallikarjuna was also arrested for allegedly facilitating the £5 million deal between Dinakaran and Chandrashekaran.
