Will Maran be arrested?

[V.Balasubramani]

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Will Maran be arrested?

More worms are likely to emerge out of the can, which was (re)opened by the CBI Wednesday night. A day after the central agency arrested three aides of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the city, all of them were set to be produced before a Court here, to get transit warrant, so that they could be taken to the CBI headquarters in Delhi.

Meanwhile, the buzz is that Dayanidhi Maran may also be arrested in the illegal telephone exchange case.

'Maran's former secretary V Gowthaman, chief technical officer of Sun TV, S Kannan and an electrician with the media group, K S Ravi, are being grilled by the CBI. Based on their confessions, Maran may be arrested,' sources said.

Auditor S Gurumurthy first exposed the Rs 440 crore telephone exchange scam, bringing to light the illegal high-speed ISDN phone lines that were routed from Maran’s residence to his elder brother Kalanithi’s Sun TV to facilitate fast data transfer of news programmes, causing huge losses to government-owned BSNL.

Following this, a case was filed and CBI had named Maran and BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and MP Veluswami in the FIR filed in October 2013.

In a series of articles, Gurumurthy had laid bare Maran’s modus operandi and the scam. Quoting from a secret report prepared by the CBI dated 10 September, 2007, he had described how 48,72,027 units of calls emanated from just one telephone number, 24371515, in March 2007 alone. This, the agency said in its report, was 'indicative of massive multi-media transfer in the underlying connections'.


Read more at: Will Maran be arrested? | News Today

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Illegal telephone exchange case: CBI trying to fix me, says Dayanidhi Maran

A day after the CBI arrested three persons, including former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran's ex- secretary, the latter on Friday lashed out at the investigation agency, accusing the CBI of attempting to 'fix him' in the illegal telephone lines case in which he has been named and alleged that an RSS ideologue was behind it.

The former minister alleged that the CBI was torturing people arrested in the case in order to get them to implicate him in the case.
"The CBI has arrested the persons in order to implicate me," he said.

Read more at: Illegal telephone exchange case: CBI trying to fix me, says Dayanidhi Maran - Firstpost

 

[vgane]

Maran tried to get support from the DMK patriarch..But he has not obliged him...It is good that those in powerful positions are not allowed to be in business directly..Supreme court has already shown the way by disallowing Srinivasan from running for BCCI president as he owns the Chennai IPL...Hope this logic is applied all India so that we do not have any sort of regional disparity making tongues wag

 

[Iyyarooraan]

Suppose if it is indeed a conspiracy. It may or not be true, the South is having a tough time. At this rate even a drop of Cauvery water will leak into TN. But the future is inviting!

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Maran brothers may escape CBI fire

Chennai,Jan 23 (TruthDive): Maran brothers are quite upbeat about the CBI charge of running an illegal telephone exchange. Reason being that there are no bills raised for June 2004 to June 2007 about the outgoing or incoming calls and there is no proof to show that it was linked by fibre optic to Sun TV office from the then Telecom Minister Maran’s home in Boat Club. The only bill that BSNL has is that it paid Rs 1.2 crore for installation of these 300 odd lines.

There is a clause in BSNL which says every employee can get a service line, that is not billed. Now the CBI says that starting from BSNL GM onwards to unknown employees colluded to give such service lines to Dayanidhi Maran at his home. Only difference was that as any BSNL employee who could get a phone with broadband, Maran got ISDN, BRA and PRA connections

Read more: Maran brothers may escape CBI fire - TruthDiveTruthDive

 

[Jaykay767]

Clearly there is no case against Marans, but they will cook up some reason & put him into jail, ensure he doesn't get bail for a few months. This is another of the North/South political vendetta. Many MPs have criminal cases against them, nothing is happening against any of them !! All south Indians must come together & oppose this politically to stop this vendetta !

 

[mkrishna100]

I think Dayanidhi Maran will escape as there is very little concrete evidence for what Auditor Gurmurthy is claiming . DMK are known for Scientific Corruption and this will also come under such a catgeory only . Unless they nail Dayanidhi Maran with proper evidence nothing much will progress in this case .

 

[BRAHMACHARI]

If jj is arrested, why not maran!

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Gurumurthy challenges Dayanidhi Maran to debate on BSNL exchange scam

Mr. Maran is facing charges that he had a mini-telephone exchange set up at his Chennai residence to provide 323 telephone lines to the offices of the Sun Network, owned by his brother Kalanithi.

Chartered accountant and RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy on Friday challenged former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran for an open debate on the BSNL exchange case. He also questioned why Mr. Dayanidhi Maran called for an early morning press meet and informed journalists just a couple of hours before.

“I challenge him (Mr. Dayanidhi Maran) for a public debate. Let him prove himself there,” said Mr. Gurumurthy who was the first person to expose this issue in June 2011. “Why did he call for a meeting at a short notice and I also want to know why he has not filed defamation case against me till date,” he asked.

Mr. Dayanidhi Maran has been facing allegations that he had a mini-telephone exchange set up at his Boat Club residence in Chennai to provide 323 telephone lines at taxpayer’s expense to the offices of the Sun Network, owned by his elder brother Kalanithi Maran. Additionally, these lines were programmed in such a way that no one other than authorised BSNL staff were aware of its existence.
A sample study, it is learnt, had estimated that 48, 72,027 units of calls had emanated from one telephone number 24371515 in the month of March 2007 alone, which is indicative of massive multimedia transfers through the connections. This, Mr. Gurumurthy said, was a great loss to BSNL.


Read more at: Gurumurthy challenges Dayanidhi Maran to debate on BSNL exchange scam - The Hindu

 

[Jaykay767]

Ifjj is arrested, why not maran!

Why no FIR has been filed against Vadra so far after saying 100s of times, he will be arrested during the run to the elections ?what happened to sending Sonia & Rahul to Jail before Christmas ?

Maran is a small fry compared to these big guns, why target him?. Vendetta against South ?

Why no North politician (Maya, Mulayam, is being pursued for corruption despite many cases pending against them ??

 

[vgane]

Why no FIR has been filed against Vadra so far after saying 100s of times, he will be arrested during the run to the elections ?what happened to sending Sonia & Rahul to Jail before Christmas ?

Maran is a small fry compared to these big guns, why target him?. Vendetta against South ?

Why no North politician (Maya, Mulayam, is being pursued for corruption despite many cases pending against them ??

That is because in South especially TN politicians do not see eye to eye! MK & JJ are sworn enemies..We cannot expect any sort of bonhomie..If JJ has to be placated by center then MK has to be targetted and vice versa

In North Mulayam & Mayawato do not mind doing business with the same party (Congress)!

Mulayam has also allowed big footing of BJP in UP but not JJ in TN...That is also another difference!

 

[sarang]

Unless the institution of CBI is straightened, and made non partisan, many culprits will escape (because evidence is not collected or the case not presented properly). Even in the recent interrogation of manmohan singh on the coal scam under him, it was reported that the questioning proceedings were no recorded and a statement prepared. This was done only after objections were raised by some activists.

Even in the sunanda murdr investigation, many leads were not followed up, evidence was destroyed, even her movement and the people she met on the fateful and previous day - were all not done. But for swamy's dogged persistence, file would have been closed long ago.

 

[vgane]

But how do you ensure that the CBI head is non partisan..not filled with Ranjit Sinha's...We need honest and efficient people running the administration! But that is a casualty!! The corrupt officers have to be identified and prosecuted to bring in semblance of honesty and integrity!

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Why no FIR has been filed against Vadra so far after saying 100s of times, he will be arrested during the run to the elections ?what happened to sending Sonia & Rahul to Jail before Christmas ?

Maran is a small fry compared to these big guns, why target him?. Vendetta against South ?

Why no North politician (Maya, Mulayam, is being pursued for corruption despite many cases pending against them ??

Does Lallu Prasad yadav belong to South India? Was not action taken against him?

 

[CHANDRU1849]

Assuming it is a false case, what about the number of calls made from one number. It is staggering 4872027 units in a single month. Is it possible?

 

[V.Balasubramani]

தயாநிதி வீட்டில் தொலைபேசி இணைப்பகம் செயல்பட்டது எப்படி? அம்பலப்படுத்திய பி.எஸ்.என்.எல்., 'மாஜி' ஊழியர்

''மத்திய தொலைத்தொடர்பு அமைச்சர் என்ற முறையில், சென்னையில் உள்ள தயாநிதி வீட்டுக்கு, ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட தொலைபேசியில், நவீன தொழில் நுட்பத்தை இணைத்து, சன் 'டிவி' அலுவலகத்துக்கு, மடை மாற்றி விட்டார்,'' என, இந்திய கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சியின் மாநில குழு உறுப்பினரும், தேசிய தொலைத் தொடர்பு ஊழியர் சம்மேளனத்தின் மாநில செயலருமான மதிவாணன் கூறினார். இவர் பி.எஸ்.என்.எல்., நிறுவனத்தின் 'மாஜி' ஊழியர்.

புகைப்படம், வீடியோ:தயாநிதி வீட்டில், சட்ட விரோதமாக தொலைபேசி இணைப்பகம் அமைக்கப்பட்டது குறித்து, அவர் கூறியதாவது:தயாநிதி, 2004 - 2007 கால கட்டத்தில், மத்திய தொலை தொடர்பு துறை அமைச்சராக இருந்தார். அமைச்சர் என்ற முறையில், பி.எஸ்.என்.எல்., பொது மேலாளர் பெயரில், அவரது சென்னை வீட்டுக்கு, போன் இணைப்பு ஒன்று அளிக்கப்பட்டது. அந்த கால கட்டத்தில், ஒருங்கிணைந்த 'டேட்டா நெட்வொர்க்' சேவை (ஐ.எஸ்.டி.என்.,) அறிமுகமானது. அதற்கு முன், தொலைபேசியில், பேச மட்டுமே முடியும். இப்புதிய சேவை மூலம், தொலைபேசியில் பேசுவதோடு, புகைப்படம், வீடியோ உள்ளிட்ட அனுப்பும் சேவைகளையும் பயன்படுத்த முடியும். இவற்றை ஒருங்கிணைத்து வழங்குவது தான், ஐ.எஸ்.டி.என்., சேவை.சென்னை, போட்கிளப் பகுதியில் உள்ள, தயாநிதி வீட்டுக்கு ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட தொலைபேசியில், ஐ.எஸ்.டி.என்., சேவை இருந்தது. சென்னை, மாம்பலம் தொலைபேசி இணைப்பகம் மூலம், இந்த இணைப்பில், 323 சர்க்யூட்கள் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டன.வெளிப் பார்வைக்கு, இணைப்பு ஒன்றாக தெரிந்தாலும், 323 தொலைபேசிகள் இயங்கும். இவை அனைத்திலும், ஐ.எஸ்.டி.என்., சேவை இருந்தது.

மடை மாற்றம்:

இந்த தொலைபேசி இணைப்புகளை, போட் கிளப் பகுதியில் இருந்து, அண்ணா அறிவாலயத்தில் இருந்த, சன் 'டிவி' அலுவலகத்துக்கு, தயாநிதி, மடை மாற்றி விட்டார். சன் 'டிவி' நிர்வாகம், அதன் தொழிலுக்கு, இச்சேவையை பயன்படுத்திக் கொண்டது. இதன்மூலம், பி.எஸ்.என்.எல்., நிறுவனத்துக்கு, 440 கோடி ரூபாய் அளவுக்கு வருவாய் இழப்பு ஏற்பட்டது.தயாநிதி மீதான புகாரைவிசாரிக்குமாறு, சி.பி.ஐ.,க்கு, மத்திய தொலை தொடர்பு துறை செயலராக இருந்த மாத்தூர், 2007ல் உத்தரவிட்டார். அப்போது, தொலைத் தொடர்பு துறை அமைச்சராக இருந்தவர் தி.மு.க.,வை சேர்ந்த ராஜா.சி.பி.ஐ., இணை இயக்குனர் தலைமையில் நடந்த விசாரணையில், தயாநிதி மீதான குற்றச்சாட்டுக்கு, முகாந்திரம் உள்ளதாக, தொலைத் தொடர்பு செயலருக்கு, 2008ல் அறிக்கை சமர்பிக்கப்பட்டது. ஆனால், சி.பி.ஐ., அறிக்கை மீது, தொடர் நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க, தொலைத் தொடர்பு துறை உத்தரவிடவில்லை. இந்நிலையில், 'சி.பி.ஐ., அறிக்கை மீது, தொடர் விசாரணை நடத்த வேண்டும்' என, ஆடிட்டர் குருமூர்த்தி, உச்ச நீதிமன்றத்தை அணுகினார். உச்ச நீதிமன்ற உத்தரவை அடுத்து, 2014 அக்டோபரில், முதல் தகவல் அறிக்கை பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டது.

மேலும் படிக்க : EX BSNL worker explain about Telephone exchange | ??????? ???????? ???????? ????????? ??????????? ??????? ??????????????? ??.???.???.???., '????' ?????? Dinamalar

 

[Iyyarooraan]

It is good there are people who see the "divide". Fortunately, it is not the people of TN who are responsible; but the political leadership there. They will fight even against the interest of TN.

 

[Jaykay767]

DoesLallu Prasad yadav belong to South India? Was not action taken againsthim?

Lallu went to Jail, after being convicted by the courts. There was no 24x7 media targeting him,& after the high profile cases of Raji, Kanimozhi, they had no choice but to put him jail “after conviction in supreme court”.

In the case of South, most of them went to Jail at the FIR (Raja, Kanimozhi, Jagan, Yeddyurappa, Kalmadi, etc..) stage on flimsy ground that they will influence the case, bails repeatedly denied to teach them a lesson etc... 24x7 media coverage targetting them (Shashi Tharoor, N Srinivasan etc..) , relentlessly pursuing them till they resigned from their posts, questioning repeatedly on propriety, etc…

Why no such media pursuit on North Politicians ?

Supreme court was used to ensure N Srinivasan was kicked out of the BBCI Top Job in the middle of his tenure & refused to allow him to contest the elections!!

Now the media target is Shashi Tharoor. My question is why Vadra is NOT being targeted like Shashi, N Srinivasan, etc..

 

[Jaykay767]

In short, 1 North Politician going to Jail "after due process of conviction in supreme court" vs 20+ Politicians in South going to Jail without "any conviction" before even FIR is filed, media frenzy, media trail, pillorying them, & maligning their dignity deliberately. Not to mention the countless employees, assistants, etc.. working for these South politicians who are languishing in Jail without any fair process of trail !!!