Chennai:The driver of Muthukumar, one of the accused in the multi-crore school approval scam, on Wednesday surrendered before the Special Court for Corruption in Chennai. The police had on Tuesday told the court that bail should not be granted to former minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi till the absconding driver Saravanan, who is accused of carrying the cash involved in the scam to the house of Anbil Mahesh, is arrested.
Saravanan, who is the sixth accused in the case, appeared before Judge L.S. Sathiyamoorthy of the special court. The driver said he had surrendered voluntarily without pressure from anyone and the judge remanded him to judicial custody till November 25.
During the hearing of the bail petition of Anbil Mahesh, the police said Muthukumar had collected the money and his driver Saravanan had taken it to the former minister’s residence. The police said they had video evidence for the claim and bail to Mahesh should not be granted till Saravanan is arrested.
Anbil Mahesh was arrested on October 26. Cases were registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 by the Chennai Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on September 16. The first complaint on the school approval scam was given by T.C. Ilangovan, secretary of Federation of Associations of Private Schools in Tamil Nadu. He filed a case against a DMK functionary P.T. Arasakumar, who was running an unrecognised organisation called the Tamil Nadu Private Schools Association. On June 27, the CCB arrested Arasakumar on charges of collecting Rs 100 crore from various private school managements by promising to get recognition and various permissions for the schools during the DMK government.
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