The curtain seem to have finally come down on former Union minister Dayanidhi Maran, with the Madras High Court cancelling his interim anticipatory bail and directing him to surrender before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) within three days.
Maran was charged with installing over 300 telephone lines at his residence while serving as the Union telecom minister and connecting them to his brother Kalanithi Maran-owned Sun TV's office for uplinking videos. Accusations have also flown thick and fast against him in the Aircel-Maxis deal and the Tata-Rupert Murdoch direct-to-home project. Besides, Maran's reluctance to cooperate with investigators showed him in poor light. When a large number of people have been convicted of petty offences and are languishing in jails for years there is no justification for Maran to escape punishment for an act that caused a loss to the tune of crores of rupees to the exchequer.
N J Ravi Chander Bengaluru
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