ministerChennai, Oct 14 (PTI) The Madras High Court has directedthe police to submit a status report on the probe into a casefiled against Tamil Nadu minister R Kamaraj and an official inthe secretariat for allegedly cheating a real estatebusinessman of Rs 45 lakh.
Justice M S Ramesh gave the direction recently to theinspector of the Mannargudi police station, on a petitionfiled by the businessman, S V S Kumar, seeking to transfer theprobe against Food Minister Kamaraj and the official either tothe CB-CID or CBI.
The judge has also directed Kumar to appear before theMannargudi police on October 23.
Kumar, in his petition, alleged that Kamaraj had promisedto evict an occupant from his property and taken a bribe of Rs45 lakh from him through Ramakrishnan, the official in thesecretariat, in 2011 for the same.
After becoming a minister, he neither got the job donenor did he return the money, the petitioner alleged.
He also alleged that he was being threatened by someunidentified persons.
Kumar had submitted before the court that though theMannargudi police had lodged a case against the minister andthe official on the basis of his complaint on May 5, nofurther action had been taken by them.
Hence, he had prayed that the case be transferred to theCB-CID or CBI. PTI CORR RCRC.
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