New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) A day after DMK MP Kanimozhi sought to put the blame for the telecom licence scandal on her party colleague A. Raja, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday told a special court that she was indeed 'close' to the former telecom minister and is the 'mastermind behind the Kalignar TV' where the payoffs are alleged to have been routed.
Arguing before Special CBI judge O.P. Saini, public prosecutor U.U. Lalit said: 'Kanimozhi was in constant touch with Raja. She was the brain behind Kalaignar. One cannot imagine that Rs.200 crore would be clouded so easily unless and until there was some riding hand behind it.'
'Sharad Kumar (managing director of Kalaignar TV) and Kanimozhi hold 20 percent shares separately in Kalaignar TV. It is impossible to believe that Sharad is the operating mind behind Kalaignar TV, when Kanimozhi and Ammal, belonging to the same family, hold 80 percent of the total shares in the channel,' Lalit contended pleading no leniency should be shown to them.
But despite damning CBI arguments against Kanimozhi, the DMK MP may not immediately go to jail as her bail plea was deferred to May 14.
'The order on the bail plea is reserved for May 14,' judge Saini said after a three-hour long argument by the CBI counsel in a courtroom jampacked with DMK leaders, journalists and members of the Karunanidhi family.
On Friday, Kanimozhi's counsel Ram Jethmalani had told the same court that 'it's A. Raja who could be accused of conspiracy, not Kanimozhi.
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