Dindigul: In the case of fraudulently registering land worth Rs. 100 crore belonging to the Palani Dhandapani Mutt, the Dindigul court has granted permission to the CB-CID police to take the four arrested persons into police custody for 3 days for questioning.
Land worth Rs. 100 crore belonging to the Dhandapani Mutt in the foothills area of Palani in Dindigul district was fraudulently registered for Rs. 2 crore.
In this connection, the Dindigul CB-CID police registered a case against 11 people, including Sub-Registrar Justin Manikandan, temple heir Murugadas, Vellathurai from Pappankulam in Tiruppur district who bought the land, Sethupathi from Pudur near Palani, lawyer Anvardeen who prepared and gave the deed, and Jayaprakash from Oddanchatram who acted as an intermediary.
In this case, Sub-Registrar Justin Manikandan obtained anticipatory bail from the Madurai Bench of the Chennai High Court and appeared for questioning at the Dindigul CB-CID police office.
Furthermore, in this case, the police arrested the associated trust administrator Murugadas, the purchaser of the property Vellathurai, Sethupathi, and lawyer Anwardeen on July 29 and lodged them in Madurai Central Prison.
The CBCID police, who decided to take them into judicial custody for questioning, filed a petition in the Dindigul court. This petition came up for hearing today before Judge Bakkiyaraj.
At that time, accepting the CBCID police’s request, he ordered that they be taken into police custody for questioning for three days, from Aug. 5 (today afternoon) until Aug. 7 (Friday afternoon).
Following this, the four people who were brought from Madurai Central Prison to the Dindigul court were taken away for questioning by CBCID police.
