HC denies anticipatory bail to Puducherry education minister

Updated on: Wednesday, November 09, 2011

The Madras High Court refused anticipatory bail to Puducherry Transport and Education Minister P M L Kalyanasundaram who apprehended arrest in connection with an FIR against him for allegedly cheating in a 10th standard supplementary examination in September.
 
Rejecting Kalyanasundaram's plea for bail, Justice S Palanivelu said as far as the form maintained in the examination hall for the candidate's signatures in additional answer books was concerned, it differed from the admitted one seized by police from Puducherry Secretariat.
 
Besides, it was alleged that the minister had provided a wrong residential address at Tinpanam, which was yet to be investigated.
 
The prosecution feared if Kalyanasundaram was released on bail, there was the possibility of him influencing witnesses and hampering the investigation, the Judge said, adding granting anticipatory bail to the petitioner at this stage was not desirable.
   
The investigation was at a nascent stage, he said and dismissed the application for anticipatory bail.
  
In his petition for anticipatory bail, Kalyanasundaram claimed that on appearing at the centre to write the test, his hall ticket as well as the number on the answer sheet had been verified ony after which he was allowed to write the examination.
   
He appeared for the science examination on September 29 last but did not do so the next day for the second paper as he had to attend a meeting in the Puducherry legislative assembly.
   
He claimed he had been falsely implicated in the case due to political reasons.

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