A special court here conducting trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case on Tuesday allowed the Enforcement Directorate to delete the names of DMK president M. Karunanidhi’s daughter S. Selvi and an employee of Kalaignar TV from the list of prosecution witnesses.
The Directorate had earlier mentioned Ms. Selvi and T. Siva Subramanian, the Kalaignar TV employee, as witnesses in the 2G-connected money laundering case in which former Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK Rajya Sabha MP, Kanimozhi, are among the accused facing trial for allegedly presenting a bribe amount of Rs. 200 core as a loan transaction.
Request by SPP
Special Judge allowed dropping of the witnesses on a request by Special Public Prosecutor in the case, N.K. Matta.
“It is… submitted by Sh. N.K. Matta, Special Public Prosecutor, that the prosecution does not wish to examine Ms. S. Selvi and Sh. T. Siva Subramanian as witnesses in this case. Prayer allowed. Both of them are dropped from list of witnesses to be examined,’’ Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini said in his brief order. Mr. Karunanidhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal is also an accused in the case.
According to the complaint filed by the Directorate, the Kalaignar TV (KTV) in which Ms. Dayalu Ammal and Ms. Kanimozhi had 60 and 20 per cent stake respectively had received Rs. 200 crore as an ‘illegal gratification’ from the connected companies of the Swan Telecom Private Limited which had been allocated Unified Access Services licences in an ‘illegal manner’ in 13 services areas with the ‘connivance’ of Mr. Raja and some officers of the Ministry.
The complaint stated that KTV had received the alleged bribe amount on behalf of Mr. Raja.
KTV had later returned the money through the same routes through which it had come with an interest amount of Rs. 31.36 crore to show that it was a genuine loan transaction, the complaint said.
