<p>The Madras High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister M K Alagiri's son, Durai Dayanidhi, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Dayanidhi, for whom a special police team was on the lookout, and nine others are facing charges that companies owned by them mined sand and granite without permission.<br /><br />Justice Mathivanan of the Madurai bench of the court also rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Dayanidhi's business partner S Nagarajan as also the bail application of Deputy Director of Mines Department Shanmugavel, already arrested in the case.<br /><br />The court rejected anticipatory bail pleas of a granite company owner and his son in the alleged scam while granting relief to the owner's wife. Government cracked down on the firms after former Madurai Collector U Sahayam in a report, estimated the losses incurred from illegal granite mining at around Rs 16,000 crore.<br /><br />On September 15, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officials booked two IAS officers--former Madurai District Collectors N Mathivanan and C Kamaraj--for alleged corruption in the case and conducted raids across 34 places in the state.<br /><br />Police had alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Dayanidhi and other accused from leaving the country. The companies' accounts had already been frozen.</p>
<p>The Madras High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister M K Alagiri's son, Durai Dayanidhi, in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Dayanidhi, for whom a special police team was on the lookout, and nine others are facing charges that companies owned by them mined sand and granite without permission.<br /><br />Justice Mathivanan of the Madurai bench of the court also rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Dayanidhi's business partner S Nagarajan as also the bail application of Deputy Director of Mines Department Shanmugavel, already arrested in the case.<br /><br />The court rejected anticipatory bail pleas of a granite company owner and his son in the alleged scam while granting relief to the owner's wife. Government cracked down on the firms after former Madurai Collector U Sahayam in a report, estimated the losses incurred from illegal granite mining at around Rs 16,000 crore.<br /><br />On September 15, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officials booked two IAS officers--former Madurai District Collectors N Mathivanan and C Kamaraj--for alleged corruption in the case and conducted raids across 34 places in the state.<br /><br />Police had alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Dayanidhi and other accused from leaving the country. The companies' accounts had already been frozen.</p>