Twelve years after being discharged in a disproportionate belongings case, the Madras excessive court docket has reopened the case towards former chief minister and expelled AIADMK chief O Panneerselvam (OPS).
Justice Anand Venkatesh on Tuesday put aside an order of a decrease court docket (Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Sivaganga) discharging OPS and 7 of his relations in December 2012. Two of the accused, together with OPS’ spouse P Vijayalakshmi, have died since then, for which the process towards them could be abated. Justice Venkatesh has restored the trial towards OPS and the remaining accused.
In the meantime, the jurisdictional court docket has modified to Madurai district’s Particular Courtroom for Trial of MP and MLA Circumstances. So, the court docket ordered the data to be transferred from Sivaganga to Madurai earlier than November 27. Following this, the Madurai court docket can difficulty summons to the surviving six accused, together with OPS, his son OP Ravindranath and brother O Raja.
The order is a part of the revision circumstances, which justice Venkatesh had taken up suo motu towards both the discharge or acquittal of six heavyweight politicians of the DMK and AIADMK. The accused had been booked for graft by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC).
The DVAC below the DMK regime had registered a case towards OPS for accumulating wealth amounting to ₹1.7 crore disproportionate to his identified sources of revenue between 2001 and 2001 when he was the income minister. In 2012, the AIADMK got here again to energy and the DVAC closed the case and OPS was discharged by the Sivaganga court docket. Justice Venkatesh final yr stated that he believed that the discharge of OPS in 2012 set the sample for the discharge of elected representatives each time the regime modified between the DMK and AIADMK.
OPS had moved the Supreme Courtroom towards the excessive court docket taking on the revision case towards him, which the highest court docket dismissed earlier in March. The suo motu initiated towards DMK minister Ok Ponmudi final August towards his discharge in a disproportionate belongings case is the primary in a sequence of such motion taken by justice Venkatesh. Subsequently, he additionally initiated suo motu motion towards ministers Thangam Thennarasu (finance) and KKSSR Ramachandran (income and catastrophe), OPS, I Periyasamy (rural improvement minister) and former AIADMK minister B Valarmathi.
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