KC Palanisamy gets conditional bail

Coimbatore: Principal district and sessions judge R Sakthivel on Tuesday evening granted conditional bail to former Tiruchengode MP and expelled AIADMK leader KC Palanisamy. He was directed to sign before the judicial magistrate, Sulur, twice every day at 10.30am and 5pm until further order.
The copy of bail order to reach the prison authorities on Wednesday and he is likely to come out of the prison in the afternoon or evening.
The court also told in the order that if he fail to comply with the conditions regularly, the bail will be cancelled automatically. He should not tamper the evidence or witness either during investigation or trial.
On January 25, KC Palanisamy was arrested by the Sulur police for running a fake AIADMK website and he was booked under 15 sections of Indian Penal Code and two sections of Information Technology Act.
The case was filed based on a complaint from Muthugoundenpudur village panchayat president V P Kandavel that the former MP impersonated himself as the member of the AIADMK despite being expelled by the party in 2018 and created a web portal www.aiadmk.org.in suggesting that the AIADMK and MGR loyalists were rallying behind him. “He cheated the public by distributing membership cards. He has used the twitter feeds of the AIADMK official handle and published the old bylaws of the AIADMK, hiding the fact that they were modified several times in the past,” Kandavel said.
KC Palanisamy has been spending his days behind the bars at the Coimbatore central prison from January 25. Earlier his bail petitions were rejected by the judicial magistrate court, Sulur and PDJ court.
Again, he filed petition before the PDJ court seeking bail from the court. Lawyer R Sivakumar who appeared on behalf of Palanisamy said Palanisamy filed a writ petition before the New Delhi High Court and the case is pending before the court. He has been falsely roped in this case, only because of political vengeance.
After hearing the arguments of defence counsel and prosecution, the judge has granted bail to Palanisamy.