A case of disproportionate assets was filed against a former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA by the Vigilance Directorate and simultaneous searches were held in multiple locations on Friday by the anti-corruption sleuths.
The MLA, who represented Gumidipoondi in Tiruvallur district, was shot dead after he came out of his house, in Tiruvallur, apparently on hearing some noise outside at around 2.30 am.
A Dalit All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA's marriage to a 19-year-old Brahmin woman has met with staunch opposition from her father, who after a scuttled suicide attempt, alleged that the legislator abducted his daughter, a charge denied by both the bride and groom.
Arjunan claimed that some persons belonging to the DMK in the guise of public abused him and his mother.
Venugopal told the court that he had given legal opinion to the AIADMK faction led by Panneerselvam.
'When someone gives you one kilo of gold you have some obligations to them'
"It is me in the video, but the voice is not mine," Saravanan told reporters.
K Pandiarajan has filed a petition in the apex court in which he has sought a direction for quashing Speaker P Dhanapal's decision rejecting the demand for a secret ballot to determine the outcome of the floor test.
This is perhaps for the first time the CBI raided a serving police chief of a state.
'Nobody is telling you not to speak or learn your mother tongue. But making other languages an emotional issue is wrong.'
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