{"id":53420,"date":"2018-07-25T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53420"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:53:04","slug":"telephone-exchange-case-hc-sets-aside-order-discharging-maran-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/telephone-exchange-case-hc-sets-aside-order-discharging-maran-brothers","title":{"rendered":"Telephone exchange case: HC sets aside order discharging Maran brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" data-attachment-id=\"53161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/madras-hc-refused-to-quash-case-against-couple-in-land-grabbing\/madras_high_court_pti\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?fit=630%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,390\" 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_High_Court_PTI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?fit=630%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?resize=300%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?resize=150%2C93&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Madras_High_Court_PTI.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Chennai:<\/b>\u00a0The Madras High Court today set aside a lower court order discharging all the accused, including the Maran brothers, in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing the appeal filed by the CBI, Justice G Jaichandran directed a special CBI court to frame charges and conclude the trial within 12 months from the date of receipt of copy of the order.<br \/>\nThe special CBI court had in March discharged Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others accused in the case.<br \/>\nThe trial court 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 residence of Dayanidhi Maran here during 2004-06 when he was the telecom minister and it was used for the business transactions involving the Sun Network owned by 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 were 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 set aside a lower court order discharging all the accused, including the Maran brothers, in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case. 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