Delhi Police Crime Branch on Friday submitted the charge sheet against alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekhar in the attempted Election Commission bribery case.
According to the charge sheet, the police are yet to established the money trail in the deal between Sukesh and AIADMK (Amma) faction leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran to get the ‘two leaves’ symbol for the latter’s faction.
After filing the charge sheet against Sukesh and three others at the Tis Hazari court, the police said it would file a supplementary charge sheet against Dhinakaran and the remaining accused after completing the probe against them. Earlier the police had said the deal was fixed for ₹50 lakh and a part of it had been paid to Sukesh.
Short on details
While the police had said in the 701-page report that analysis of conversations between the two aforementioned accused indicated that the money recovered from Sukesh was sent by Dhinakaran through unaccounted channels with the help of other accused persons, the details of the same are missing.
The list of 36 witnesses submitted in the chargesheet names two media executives working for private television channels, the Director of Rajya Sabha Secretariat and staff of the hotel from where Sukesh was arrested on April 16 besides Income Tax officials and policemen.
Interestingly, no ECI official has been named in the summary of investigations thus far, raising questions on whether any actual attempt was made by the accused to approach the institution with a bribe.
The charge sheet was filed by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police before Special Judge Manoj Jain, who listed the matter before the concerned judge on July 17 and issued a production warrant for Sukesh Chandrashekar for that day.
The charges against Chandrashekar include forgery of valuable security, forgery for purpose of cheating, using forged document as genuine and possessing a forged document, intending to use it as genuine, personating a public servant and criminal conspiracy.
