Thrissur: NRI businessman Dr Sundar Menon, a Padma Shri awardee, has refuted the allegations against him over using passports and registering vehicles in two different names. “The allegations are part of the rivalry between two NRI business groups,” he told reporters here on Saturday. Acting on a complaint by Mr Balasubramaniyam, a resident of Kunnathu lane at Thiruvamabady here, the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court had ordered an inquiry into the allegations regarding the NRI business man for using two different names.
On July 21, the East police had registered a case for violating passport rules and invoked sections including 420 of IPC for cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property. “It is true that I have changed my name by adhering to all official procedures like obtaining ‘one and same’ certificate from the village officer and notifying it through newspapers. So the issue of using two names does not stand any ground,” he said.
He also said that there was no issuance of a gazette notification regarding the change in the name, as none of the officials had asked for the same. “I am ready to face a police inquiry and prove that all the 18 documents submitted by the complainant against me would not support the allegations. My rivals are behind the complainant and so I wish not to initiate action against Balasubramaniyam,” he said. Social worker Uma Preman, director at Santhi Medical Information Centre, and Prof. M. Madhavan Kutty, a close associate of Mr Menon, said that they would take the initiative to settle the feud between two NRI business groups.
