<p>In a major setback to former Union IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran, the Madras High Court on Monday cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to him in the multi-crore illegal telephone exchange case and ordered him to surrender before the CBI in three days. <br /><br /></p>.<p>When the petition filed by the CBI asking to cancel the anticipatory bail given to Maran came up for hearing, Justice S Vaidyanathan accepted the investigation agency’s contention that the former Union minister did not cooperate with the investigation and cancelled the bail.<br /><br />The Judge said the order copies cancelling the bail would be given to the CBI on Monday, while grating him three days time to surrender.<br /><br />The CBI had recently moved the High Court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to Maran, alleging that he did not cooperate during the interrogation.<br /><br />The petition accused Maran of being evasive and giving contradictory replies, besides intentionally covering the facts to save himself and others in the case.<br /><br />The investigating agency also charged that Maran, despite sustained interrogation during his presence before the probing team, intentionally did not produce any relevant information, which was in his exclusive knowledge.<br /><br />Following Maran’s petition, the court had, on June 30, granted six weeks’ anticipatory bail to him after the CBI summoned him to New Delhi for questioning in the case.<br /><br />The court also said the CBI could file a petition seeking to cancel the bail if Maran did not cooperate with the investigation.<br /><br />Maran has been charged with installing over 300 telephone lines at his residence while he was the Union Telecom Minister and connecting them to his brother Kalanidhi Maran-owned Sun TV office for uplinking videos.<br /><br />The CBI has named Maran and senior BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and M P Veluswami, in the FIR filed in October 2013 following a preliminary inquiry in which the agency claimed to have found enough evidence to proceed with a regular case against the former Union telecom minister. <br /><br />Subsequently, a special CBI team from New Delhi had arrested Gowthaman, Chief Technical Officer S Kannan and electrician K S Ravi of Sun TV network recently in connection with the case on January 21 this year.<br /></p>
<p>In a major setback to former Union IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran, the Madras High Court on Monday cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to him in the multi-crore illegal telephone exchange case and ordered him to surrender before the CBI in three days. <br /><br /></p>.<p>When the petition filed by the CBI asking to cancel the anticipatory bail given to Maran came up for hearing, Justice S Vaidyanathan accepted the investigation agency’s contention that the former Union minister did not cooperate with the investigation and cancelled the bail.<br /><br />The Judge said the order copies cancelling the bail would be given to the CBI on Monday, while grating him three days time to surrender.<br /><br />The CBI had recently moved the High Court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to Maran, alleging that he did not cooperate during the interrogation.<br /><br />The petition accused Maran of being evasive and giving contradictory replies, besides intentionally covering the facts to save himself and others in the case.<br /><br />The investigating agency also charged that Maran, despite sustained interrogation during his presence before the probing team, intentionally did not produce any relevant information, which was in his exclusive knowledge.<br /><br />Following Maran’s petition, the court had, on June 30, granted six weeks’ anticipatory bail to him after the CBI summoned him to New Delhi for questioning in the case.<br /><br />The court also said the CBI could file a petition seeking to cancel the bail if Maran did not cooperate with the investigation.<br /><br />Maran has been charged with installing over 300 telephone lines at his residence while he was the Union Telecom Minister and connecting them to his brother Kalanidhi Maran-owned Sun TV office for uplinking videos.<br /><br />The CBI has named Maran and senior BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and M P Veluswami, in the FIR filed in October 2013 following a preliminary inquiry in which the agency claimed to have found enough evidence to proceed with a regular case against the former Union telecom minister. <br /><br />Subsequently, a special CBI team from New Delhi had arrested Gowthaman, Chief Technical Officer S Kannan and electrician K S Ravi of Sun TV network recently in connection with the case on January 21 this year.<br /></p>
