Keeping the suspense on, a Delhi special court today reserved the orders on the DMK MP Ms Kanimozhi’s bail plea after the CBI strongly opposed it saying she is “controlling everything” in Kalaignar TV, which got Rs 200 crore from Dynamix Balwa group, from behind the scene.
Special Judge Mr O.P. Saini said the order on bail pleas of Ms Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV Managing Director Mr Sharad Kumar will be pronounced on May 14, a day after the results for the Assembly elections will be out.
Special public prosecutor Mr U.U. Lalit, appearing for CBI, vehemently opposed her plea, saying “the controlling mind of Kalaignar TV is Sharad Kumar but behind the scene the person who is controlling everything in Kalaignar TV is this lady (Kanimozhi).”
Appearing on Friday in response to the special court’s summons for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, the 43-year-old daughter of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M. Karunanidhi, had pleaded for bail and sought it on grounds of being a woman and a MP.
She also sought to shift the blame on the former Telecom Minister, Mr A. Raja, for the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
The Kalaignar TV Managing Director, Mr Sharad Kumar, too had appeared along with her and had moved the court for bail.
The CBI told the Special Judge Mr Saini that Ms Kanimozhi and her family have got majority stake in the TV channel, which received Rs 200 crore from the company which got telecom licence and spectrum illegally during the tenure of Raja.
The CBI contended that there was sufficient evidence to prove Mr Kanimozhi’s complicity in the transaction of Rs 200 crore paid by Mr Balwa.
“Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar’s complicity in the entire transaction of Rs 200 crore is clearly made out,” Mr Lalit said while pleading with the court that no lenient approach be shown to them and that they be sent to judicial custody like other accused in the case.
The investigating agency further submitted that the DMK family holds 80 per cent stake in the TV and all the decision regarding financial transactions must be known to them.
It said that the DMK chief Mr Karunanidhi’s wife Ms Dayalu Ammal holds 60 per cent stake in the company but she is not actively involved in its running which is done by Ms Kanimozhi and Mr Sharad Kumar.
“If a family holds 80 per cent share in a company, it is impossible to think that anyone other than members of that family could run the company,” Mr Lalit said.