The additional chief metropolitan magistrate court-economic offences-II on Friday issued a prisoner transit warrant for production of AIADMK (Amma) deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran before it on June 8 for framing charges against him in a FERA violation case registered by the Enforcement Directorate.
Mr. Dhinakaran is at present lodged in Tihar Central Prison in New Delhi after he was arrested in the case of alleged attempt to bribe Election Commission officials for allotment of the ‘Two leaves’ symbol to his faction.
When the matter came up for hearing before judicial magistrate S. Malarmathy on Friday, Mr. Dhinakaran did not appear since he was lodged in Tihar Prison.
On a petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate, the court had issued the warrant directing the prison authorities of Tihar Central Prison to produce him before the court for framing of charges on June 8.
Two cases filed by ED
Mr. Dhinakaran has been facing two cases filed by the ED in this court.
The court has already framed charges against him in the case relating to illegal transaction of $1,04,93,313 in foreign exchange without permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and deposited it in the current account of Dipper Investments Ltd., a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, with Barclays Bank, Sutton, United Kingdom.
The court is yet to frame charges in another case relating to illegal receipt of foreign exchange to the tune of $36,36,000 and £1,00,000 and payment for the credit of a person residing outside India without the general or specific exemption of the RBI for starting a hotel in the UK and later for a wine factory.
