Chennai: After three days of grilling in Chennai, AIADMK (Amma) leader TTV Dhinakaran and Mallikarjuna, the two suspects in Election Commission bribery case, were taken back to Delhi by Delhi police on Saturday evening. The two suspects and six police personnel, including assistant commissioner of police Sanjay Sherawat left the city by a 7.40 pm flight while five other policemen left Chennai to Delhi in an afternoon flight. The two were in five days police custody and will be lodged in a jail in Delhi by Monday morning. TTV Dhinakaran and Mallikarjuna were kept in a guesthouse in Rajaji Bhavan in Besant Nagar and questioned since Delhi police brought the two to the city on Thursday afternoon.
The two were also taken to Dhinakaran's house in Adyar where the police quizzed his wife Anuradha and her PA Janardhanan alias Jana. On Friday the Delhi police teams had summoned a retired PWD officer, manager of a private mobile phone service provider company and a lawyer for enquiry. The Delhi police are on a money trail after they registered a case against Dhinakaran alleging that he tried to bribe an unnamed election commission official to get undivided party symbol of two leaves for his faction of AIADMK. Dhinakaran and his associate Mallikarjuna, were arrested by the Delhi police on Tuesday night after four days of questioning. Dhinakaran was arrested after his 'agent' Sukash Chandrasekhar was arrested from a hotel in Delhi on April 16 with Rs.1.3 crore cash.
On Friday Delhi police had also arrested one Naresh a hawala agent in Delhi. He had allegedly transferred Rs.10 crore to the account of Sukash on behalf of Dhinakaran.
