J Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad heist clip on EPS: Tamil Nadu police pick up two in Delhi
TNN | Jan 14, 2019, 11:12 IST
J Jayalalithaa (File Photo)CHENNAI: A state police team arrested two people who broke into chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad estate in April 2017, in Delhi after they gave statements linking the incident to chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in a video released by a person called Mathew Samuel.
K V Sayan and Walayar Manoj were in Delhi for a press meet when the police team picked them up.
The video uploaded by Samuel spoke of five deaths linked to the estate and claimed that the burglary was carried out to steal some documents. The deaths and the burglary took place in April 2017.
Six people, including Mathew Samuel, have now been cited as accused in a case registered by the cyber wing. The police action came after a complaint filed by Sathyan, son of AIADMK IT wing office-bearer Rajan Chellappa.
In the video, Sayan said that his co-accused Kanakaraj was in touch with CM Palaniswami. Sayan was out on bail after he was arrested in the break-in. Sayan alleged that Kanakaraj, who was Jayalalithaa’s former driver, had told him that there was ?2,000 crore cash and important documents in the bungalow. Sayan also claimed that Kanakaraj had asked him to hire people from outside TN to steal some documents from the estate and hand them over to Palaniswami, who Kanakaraj had allegedly met after he was sworn in as the chief minister.
Journalist reiterates charge against CM
In April 2017, a security guard of the Kodanad estate, Jayalalithaa’s retreat home in the Nilgiris, was found dead. During the probe it was found that Jayalalithaa’s former driver C Kanagaraj and one K V Sayan had allegedly plotted the crime. Police arrested 10 people in connection with the case.
Kanagaraj and Sayan’s wife and daughter were killed in separate road accidents during the probe, even as another employee of the property was found dead in a suspected case of suicide.
Everyone who gave the damning interview on camera has been included as an accused in the new case.
Meanwhile, former Tehelka journalist Mathew Samuel on Sunday reiterated his charges against chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami with regard to burglary and deaths related to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad retreat in the Nilgiris.
Even as police teams fanned out in search of him in connection with a case registered against him and five others by the Tamil Nadu cyber wing police, Samuel told television channels, “Let me make it clear, whatever I did as journalists’ expose, everyone got convicted.”
K V Sayan and Walayar Manoj were in Delhi for a press meet when the police team picked them up.
The video uploaded by Samuel spoke of five deaths linked to the estate and claimed that the burglary was carried out to steal some documents. The deaths and the burglary took place in April 2017.
Six people, including Mathew Samuel, have now been cited as accused in a case registered by the cyber wing. The police action came after a complaint filed by Sathyan, son of AIADMK IT wing office-bearer Rajan Chellappa.
In the video, Sayan said that his co-accused Kanakaraj was in touch with CM Palaniswami. Sayan was out on bail after he was arrested in the break-in. Sayan alleged that Kanakaraj, who was Jayalalithaa’s former driver, had told him that there was ?2,000 crore cash and important documents in the bungalow. Sayan also claimed that Kanakaraj had asked him to hire people from outside TN to steal some documents from the estate and hand them over to Palaniswami, who Kanakaraj had allegedly met after he was sworn in as the chief minister.
Journalist reiterates charge against CM
In April 2017, a security guard of the Kodanad estate, Jayalalithaa’s retreat home in the Nilgiris, was found dead. During the probe it was found that Jayalalithaa’s former driver C Kanagaraj and one K V Sayan had allegedly plotted the crime. Police arrested 10 people in connection with the case.
Kanagaraj and Sayan’s wife and daughter were killed in separate road accidents during the probe, even as another employee of the property was found dead in a suspected case of suicide.
Everyone who gave the damning interview on camera has been included as an accused in the new case.
Meanwhile, former Tehelka journalist Mathew Samuel on Sunday reiterated his charges against chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami with regard to burglary and deaths related to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad retreat in the Nilgiris.
Even as police teams fanned out in search of him in connection with a case registered against him and five others by the Tamil Nadu cyber wing police, Samuel told television channels, “Let me make it clear, whatever I did as journalists’ expose, everyone got convicted.”
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