Court issues production warrant for Dinakaran

New Delhi, May 21: A special court has ordered the AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dinakaran on police’s plea seeking his consent to obtain voice sample required for its investigation in the Election Commission bribery case here on Friday.

While coming to details, Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry had given a production warrant directing the Tihar Jail authorities to produce Dinakaran, who is in judicial custody.

The court's direction came on Delhi Police Crime Branch's plea seeking to obtain Dinakaran’s consent for a voice sample. The court had yesterday allowed the police to take steps for obtaining his consent.

The police had earlier sought permission to obtain the consent of Dinakaran and arrested alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekar to compare their voices with those contained in a CD recovered during the investigation.

While Dinakaran had raised an objection on the maintainability of the police's plea, Chandrashekar had refused to give his consent for taking his voice samples.

The court also listed for tomorrow the bail plea of Chandrashekar, who has sought the relief claiming he was made a scapegoat and falsely implicated in the case.

Dinakaran, his close aide Mallikarjuna, Chandrashekar and suspected hawala operator Nathu Singh, another accused in the case, are lodged in judicial custody till May 29.