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Court directive to Transport Secretary

CHENNAI: A Special Court for CBI Cases here has directed the Transport Secretary to make available nine specified documents to the investigating agency, which seeks to prove that former AIADMK Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan can read, write and understand English.

Principal Special Judge S. Meenakshisundaram gave the direction on a CBI petition. It sought the documents after Mr. Sengottaiyan maintained he was not well versed in English and requested a copy of the charge sheet translated into Tamil.

The CBI submitted that the former Minister was conversant in English and could read, write and understand English. “As a Minister of Transport and Forest Departments between 1991 and 1996 he had dealt with many files in English and, after due application of mind, passed orders.”

Mr. Sengottaiyan said while discharging his duties as a Minister he was assisted by a team of officials.

The judge, holding that the capacity of Mr. Sengottaiyan to read, write and understand need not be considered in the present petition, said the Special Public Prosecutor for the CBI had said that the files were necessary for proper disposal of the former Minister’s plea. The CBI case is that AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, when she was Chief Minister, accepted demand drafts, cash and jewellery and claimed them as gifts in her income tax returns. It said she had accepted 89 demand drafts, worth over Rs.2 crore, from 57 persons in 1992.

The CBI filed a 2,000-page charge sheet on July 31. Her former Cabinet colleagues – Azhagu Tirunavukkarasu and Mr. Sengottaiyan – have been arraigned as co-accused by the CBI.

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