M.K. Stalin meeting K. N. Nehru and K. Ponmudy now lodged in Cuddalore Central Prison

 Former Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin met former Cabinet colleagues K.N. Nehru and K. Ponmudy in the Cuddalore Central Prison on Wednesday. Photo: C. Venkatachalapathy

       People will teach Jayalalithaa a proper lesson and vote against her autocratic rule not only in the Tiruchi by-poll but also in the local body elections, former Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here on Wednesday. Talking to reporters here after meeting K. N. Nehru and K. Ponmudy now lodged in Cuddalore Central Prison, Mr. Stalin charged the State Election Commission with acting as a handmaid of the AIADMK. If the State Election Commission adopted any arbitrary practice, the DMK would seek legal redress to ensure fair conduct of the elections. He was accompanied by former Health Minister M.R.K. Pannerselvam, former MLA Ela.Pugazhendi and Chennai Mayor R. Subramanian.

Another warrant

           The Tiruchi police served another arrest warrant on Mr. Nehru on Wednesday. It has been handed over to Jail Superintendent G. Shanmugasundaram. The new case was booked on the basis of a complaint filed by P. Karunanidhi of Kollampalayam in Erode district alleging that Mr. Nehru and nine others had grabbed 10,000 sq.ft. near the Tiruchi airport in 2007. Mr. Nehru is in jail in a case related to the land grab for construction of the party office in Tiruchi. About the second arrest warrant, the Jail Superintendent clarified that if Mr. Nehru secured bail in the earlier case, the jail authorities had to release him immediately. Now, with the second warrant pending against him, he would be produced before the relevant court and not enlarged on bail.

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Ponmudy held for provocative speech

CUDDALORE:

          Former minister K Ponmudy, lodged in the Cuddalore jail in a land grabbing case, was arrested again on Thursday over an alleged provocative speech against Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa during a public meeting.
 

        On June 5, during a speech at a public meeting organised to thank voters, he allegedly used derogatory language against the CM. DMK leader M Karunanidhi was also present at the meeting. In July, a First Information Report under sections 153, 294 B and 506(2) of the IPC was lodged against him with the Tiruvarur police.  On Thursday, a police team, led by DSPs Rajendran and Gurusamy, arrived at Cuddalore with a warrant and arrested him. He was escorted in a police van to Tiruvarur, produced in court and remanded till September 29.  Ponmudy later filed a bail petition with the judicial magistrate court at Tiruvarur. The former minister was then brought back and lodged in the Cuddalore prison.

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