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No evidence to prove charges made by Jayalakshmi: CBI

S. Vijay Kumar

Disciplinary action likely against nine policemen for adultery

MADURAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has said it found no truth in the allegations of rape and sexual harassment levelled by A. Jayalakshmi (32) of Sivakasi against 21 police personnel.

A special team of the CBI's Anti-Corruption Bureau, has concluded that there is no evidence to prove the charges such as rape, sexual harassment, wrongful confinement and assault. However, three policemen were found guilty of having "illegal intimacy" with Ms. Jayalakshmi and departmental action would be recommended against them.

"We have not found any substance in the allegations of sexual exploitation/harassment made against police personnel by the petitioner in her affidavit. Though adultery has been established, the agency cannot initiate criminal proceedings against the accused," a senior CBI official told The Hindu on Tuesday.

The investigators have found the Additional Superintendent of Police, C.R. Rajashekar, and inspectors V. Malaichamy and K. Sundaravadivelu, guilty of "intimacy" with Ms. Jayalakshmi. The former Superintendent of Police, K. Sokkalingam, and two others have been accused of "misusing" the official machinery to facilitate the petitioner's multi-level marketing business.

"Since it is unbecoming of police officers to get illegally involved with a woman and also engage themselves in a business run by her, the CBI will recommend disciplinary action against nine policemen," the official said. The spouses of the police officials would have to file specific complaints for action against adultery.

Meanwhile, the CBI on Tuesday filed four charge sheets against Ms. Jayalakshmi and two inspectors on charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating. The Additional Superintendent of Police, M.S. Sundararajan, filed the charge sheets. In two cases, the CBI held Ms. Jayalakshmi and inspector V.M. Elangovan guilty of "fraudulently" and "dishonestly" cheating a financier, C. Vijay of Karur, of Rs. 1 lakh and a Madurai-based jeweller of Rs. 16,385. In another case, the duo, along with Inspector Malaichamy, took 16 sovereigns of ornaments from a shop in Madurai without any payment.

Later, she pledged the jewels in a bank at Udumalpet and took Rs. 51,500. In the fourth charge sheet, the CBI accused Jayalakshmi of taking Rs. 2 lakhs from S. Ayyachamy of Koothampoondi in Erode district, promising to get his daughter, A. Shanmugasundari, the post of Sub-Inspector. After a few days, she took Ms. Shanmugasundari to Madurai and illegally confined her in a house at Ellis Nagar.

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