{"id":53126,"date":"2018-06-13T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53126"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T05:42:11","slug":"madras-hc-notice-to-maran-brothers-in-illegal-telephone-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/madras-hc-notice-to-maran-brothers-in-illegal-telephone-exchange","title":{"rendered":"Madras HC notice to Maran brothers in &#8216;illegal&#8217; telephone exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chennai:<\/b>\u00a0The Madras High Court today issued notice to all respondents in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case on a petition by CBI challenging the order.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" data-attachment-id=\"52962\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/madras-high-court-prohibits-homework-for-class-1-2-children\/madras-hc-5\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?fit=613%2C377&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"613,377\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"madras hc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?fit=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?fit=613%2C377&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52962\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/madras-hc.jpg?w=613&amp;ssl=1 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter the petition by CBI came up, Justice G Jaichandran directed issuance of notice to all those involved in the case, returnable by June 20.<br \/>\nA special CBI court had in March last discharged Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others accused in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Special judge S Natarajan had allowed the petitions filed by the Maran brothers and others seeking their discharge, holding that there was no prima facie case against them.<br \/>\nThe CBI had alleged that an illegal private telephone exchange was set up at the Chennai residence of Dayanidhi Maran during 2004-06 when he was the telecom minister and it was used for the business transactions involving the Sun Network owned by his brother Kalanithi<br \/>\nThe central agency had alleged that Dayanidhi Maran had caused a loss of Rs 1.78 crore to the exchequer.<\/p>\n<p>Other accused who have been discharged are former BSNL general manager K Brahmanathan, former deputy general manager M P Velusamy, Dayanidhi Maran&#8217;s private secretary Gauthaman and some Sun TV officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai:\u00a0The Madras High Court today issued notice to all respondents in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case on a petition by CBI challenging the order. 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