Besides Stalin, others named in the FIR are his son Udayanidhi Stalin, their business associates Srinivas, P Venugopal Reddy, Raja Shankar and Subba Reddy.
The Chennai Police has registered a First Information Report against MK Stalin, former deputy chief minister and son of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, under charges of land grabbing, criminal conspiracy and intimidation.
Besides Stalin, others named in the FIR are his son Udayanidhi Stalin, their business associates Srinivas, P Venugopal Reddy, Raja Shankar and Subba Reddy. A release issued by the police on Thursday said the father-son duo and two others allegedly forced N Seshadrikumar, a businessman, to part with his land against his wishes for a much lesser price than the market price.
What is not mentioned in the FIR is the fact that the land was adjacent to Stalin’s own house — he wanted his daughter to live in the exclusive Teynampet area in south central Chennai.
As a retaliatory action, Stalin, on Friday morning, called on the Director General of Police in his office and submitted a criminal complaint against chief minister Jayalalithaa for land grabbing at Kodanadu in Ootty and a Chennai suburb. He said the AIADMK administration has unleashed a reign of terror following reports that Jayalalithaa was all set to lose the case of disproportionate wealth case against her in a special court in Bangalore.
Later in the day, his son Udayanidhi moved the Madras high court for anticipatory bail which has been posted for December 7. Udayanidhi said he was innocent and has been wrongly implicated in the case.
According to the FIR filed with the city crime branch of the Chennai police by Seshadrikumar, the accused forcibly registered a land measuring 6,000 sq feet in Teynampet in Venugopal Reddy’s name in 2010.
In 2010, Stalin’s associates had visited Sheshadri and asked him to sell the land, which he refused.
Following this, pressure was brought on him to register the land in the name of Venugopal Reddy and he was paid Rs 5.54 crore.
The market value of the property would be much higher, the complainant said. He had sought to register a complaint in the Teynampet police station in 2010 itself, but it was not accepted citing political pressure.
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