Chennai, Jun 12 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> The Madras High Court today issued notice to all respondents in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case on a petition by CBI challenging the order of<\/p>\n
discharge of former Union Minister Dayanithi Maran and others.<\/p>\n
When the petition by CBI came up, Justice G Jaichandran directed issuance of notice to all those involved in the case, returnable by June 20.<\/p>\n
A special CBI court had in March last discharged Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others accused in the case.<\/p>\n
Special judge S Natarajan had allowed the petitions filed by the Maran brothers and others seeking their discharge, holding that there was no prima facie case against them.<\/p>\n
The CBI had alleged that an illegal private telephone exchange was set up at the Chennai residence of Dayanidhi Maran during 2004-06 when he was the telecom minister and it was used for the business transactions involving the Sun Network owned by his brother Kalanithi<\/p>\n
The central agency had alleged that Dayanidhi Maran had caused a loss of Rs 1.78 crore to the exchequer.<\/p>\n
Other accused who have been discharged are former BSNL general manager K Brahmanathan, former deputy general manager M P Velusamy, Dayanidhi Maran’s private secretary Gauthaman and some Sun TV officials.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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