A Judicial Magistrate court here on Tuesday directed the police to file charge sheet on or before July 9 in the case registered against former minister and AIADMK MLA, M. Paranjothi, on a complaint preferred by a woman government doctor of Tiruchi.
Judicial Magistrate – IV Rajaram also directed the investigating officer to be present in the court on July 9 and posted the case for next hearing on that date.
The court had last month directed the police to file the charge sheet on or before June 19 on a memo filed by Ms. Rani and posted the matter for next hearing on that date. In her memo filed last month, Ms. Rani prayed for a direction to the investigators to file the charge sheet against Mr. Paranjothi as early as possible, as it had not been filed for more than five months after the case was booked against the MLA representing the Tiruchi West assembly constituency.
When the case came up for hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution submitted that the police were unable to file the charge sheet as they were yet to obtain the document expert reports and opinion connected with the case.
The Government Hospital police station here had registered a case against Mr. Paranjothi and two others in December 2011 on a direction from the same court after Dr. Rani preferred a complaint claiming that she was his second wife.
The doctor had also claimed that Mr. Paranjothi had grabbed money and other valuable properties on various occasions from her and accused him of threatening her.
The case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 493 (cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage) 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) 506 (ii) (criminal intimidation), 294 (b) (uttering obscene words) 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and Women Harassment Act.
Mr. Paranjothi was elected in the by-poll held in October last year and was made the Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments.
After the case was booked against him, Mr. Paranjothi resigned citing personal reasons in December.
He also stepped down from his position in the party as the Tiruchi urban district secretary.
Srirangam constituency
He was elected from the Srirangam constituency in the 2006 Assembly elections and was chairman of the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation during the previous AIADMK regime.
