CHENNAI: Welcoming a CBI court discharging Kalanidhi and Dayanidhi Maran in the Aircel-Maxis cases, DMK working president M. K. Stalin on Thursday said the verdict shows judicial institutions will not accept “false cases” foisted due to “political vendetta.” Minutes after the CBI court judge O. P. Saini delivering his verdict, Stalin said the cases against Mr Kalanidhi and Mr Dayanidhi were based on “imaginative figures and unsubstantiated allegations.”
“The case were lodged to bring disrepute to both Kalanidhi Maran and Dayanidhi Maran for political reasons. Those people who filed cases against the two have now been proved wrong. The cases were also foisted to bring disrepute to the DMK,” Mr Stalin said about the cases against his nephews.
Maintaining that the cases against the media barons were “foisted” since they own one of the largest media houses in the country, Stalin said it was always a “political case” and now the court has refused to accept the allegations against the two at the initial stage itself. “I have been maintaining from the beginning that the cases were filed due to political animosity and I am very happy that they have been discharged from the case,” Stalin said.
We stand vindicated: Dayanidhi
Buoyed by the CBI court discharging him and his brother in the Aircel-Maxis case, former Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Thursday said his family’s stand that they were “innocent” and that he never “misused his official position” was vindicated. The case relating to Aircel-Maxis deal was foisted against me, my brother Kalanidhi and his wife Kavery without any basis, Mr Maran said, adding that though he always knew he was innocent, he resigned as Union Textiles Minister after allegations of misuse of official position were leveled against him. “We (Kalanidhi, Dayanidhi and Kavery) always had trust in Indian judiciary and that has been proven true today. False accusations were leveled against all of us and I was forced to resign. While resigning, I had declared that all of us were innocent and my stand has now been vindicated,” Mr Maran said in a statement here.
The former Union Minister, grand nephew of DMK President M Karunanidhi, said his family fought the case legally since it had trust in the judiciary. “We overcame every challenge and sufferings that we underwent in the past six years in the sheer hope that truth will come out one day and today we are happy that we have been discharged,” Mr Maran said.
“We have always maintained that it was a foisted case and there was no truth in the allegations and I have been saying that I never misused my official position…the verdict has once again shown that honest always wins. Truth has won,” Mr Maran said. He resigned as Union textiles minister on July 7, 2011 after the CBI mentioned his in a status report it filed before the Supreme Court on the 2G spectrum case.
