Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 6 (ANI): Former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala on Tuesday said that her wish is to take the party forward, the way MGR and Amma ( Jayalalitha ) did while adding that Tamil Nadu needs a leader who could walk the talk.

Chennai Apr 21 PTI Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala a close aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was grilled for six hours by the police on Thursday over the 2017 Kodanad heist and murder case with the enquiry set to continue on April 22 also A special Investigation Team led by West Zone IG R Sudhakar questioned Sasikala for nearly six hours at her T Nagar residence here mainly based on the deposition by the estate Manager Natarajan a few years ago police sources said Prior to her demise in December 2016 Jayalalithaa used the property in the hilly Nilgiris district as a retreat On April 24 in 2017 security guard Om Bahadur was found murdered and some documents and articles were reportedly stolen from the bungalow According to police sources the team asked Sasikala about her last visit to the bungalow the documents and cash maintained there and whether she had met the driver Kanagaraj who died in an accident in Salem five days after after the heist Assuring full cooperation for the investigation Sasikala reportedly remarked it was unfortunate that murder took place in the bungalow where Jayalalithaa used to stay and wanted stringent punishment to the culprits Sasikala was serving prison term in Bengaluru in a disproportionate assets case when the incident occurred Later in the day Sasikala told the waiting media the enquiry would continue on Friday as well PTI NVM SA SA

Chennai Aug 23 PTI Three accused in the sensational Kodanad heist-murder case have moved the Madras High Court seeking to examine former Chief Minister K Palaniswami expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala and her relatives J Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran in connection with the matter praying for setting aside a lower court order which dismissed their similar plea earlier Seeking to turn the heat on the AIADMK the Congress an ally of the ruling DMK has sought to raise the Kodanad issue in the state Assembly possibly on Tuesday with the opposition party crying foul over the move saying sub-judice matters are not discussed on the floor of the House However the DMK hit back at its rival saying it was the AIADMK that had brought the issue into the House raking it up last week when it even staged a walkout and sat on a dharna outside the hall over the matter with the Congress asking why it took the matter to the state Governor Late chief minister J Jayalalithaa used the Kodanad estate property as a retreat and after her death in December 2016 the accused murdered a security guard there injured another and decamped with valuables including watches In their Criminal Review Petition moved before the High Court the three accused --Deepu M S Satheesan and A Santosh Samy said they had earlier filed a petition before a local court in The Nilgiris under Section 233 3 and 233 of CrPC praying that they be permitted to examine Palaniswami Sasikala Elavarasi Sudhakaran then district Collector and Superintendent of Police Shankar and Murali Rambah respectively a local AIADMK functionary the manager of the estate and another person However the Sessions Judge partly allowed the petitioners to examine the Manager whereas the petition was dismissed with respect to the other witnesses they said Among others the Trial Court failed to note that it is the right of the accused to lead witnesses on his side in order to substantiate his case and passed the Impugned Order against the Principles of Natural Justice Further the court erred in rushing up the proceedings of the case while the investigation officer has intentionally left out to record the statements of material witnesses Hence the Petition filed by the PetitionersAccused to examine material witnesses of the case ought to have been allowed they said and prayed that the court set aside the lower court order partially dismissing the earlier prayer Meanwhile the opposition party slammed efforts to raise the matter in the Assembly saying it was sub-judice Party spokesperson D Jayakumar an ex-minister and a former Assembly Speaker said it is a laid down practice that sub-judice matters are not debated in the House referring to Congress Legislature Party Leader K Selvaperunthagai moving a calling attention to matters of urgent public importance on the subject There are so many issues to be discussed Is Kodanad issue a matter of urgent importance Issues like drinking water supply basic needs can be taken up during Zero Hour The notice by Congress is in violation of practice I was Speakerwe never disucssed matters that were sub-judice he told reporters here AIADMK advocate and former party MLA I S Inbadurai said House rule 92 specifies that sub-judice matters cannot be debated on the floor of the House and recalled that in 2006 when the DMK was in power an AIADMK plea to discuss some issue was turned down citing this provision Responding both DMK and Congress dismissed the AIADMKs contention Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu said it was the opposition party that first brought it the issue to the assembly Now you are saying it cannot be discussed in the Assembly Then why did you bring it here and stage a walkout last week he asked Selvaperunthagai the CLP leader also wondered why did the AIADMK register the issue in the Assembly last week if it was indeed sub-judice took it up with Governor Banwarilal Purohit and spoke on the matter in a media interaction Responding Inbadurai said it was the individual privilege of the Leader of the Opposition K Palaniswami and he can only take it up with the Speaker issues concerning him and therefore highlighted the matter in the House On August 18 Palaniswami alleged that the DMK government was attempting to get him and a few of his party men framed in the Kodanadu estate murder and heist case of and his AIADMK staged a dharna on the matter in the premises of Kalaivanar Arangam where the Assembly proceedings are held Chief Minister M K Stalin told the House then that the probe is on in the case with courts permission and that there was no political interference or vendetta PTI SA APR APR APR

Chennai (Tamil Nadu)[India], August 18 (ANI): Opposition leaders in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday staged a walkout of the Tamil Nadu assembly opposing the ruling DMK government's decision to conduct an additional probe in the Kodanad case.