Rs 100 crore Land Grabbing case: CB-CID arrests former AIADMK transport minister in Kerala

TIRUCHY: The CBCID police on Tuesday arrested the former AIADMK Transport Minister MR Vijayabhaskar and his aides in Kerala and was brought back to Karur and commenced interrogation in the evening in connection with a Rs 100 crore land grab case.

According to sources, based on the complaint by the Mela Karur Sub Registrar Mohammed Abdul Kader on June 9 with the Karur Town police on charges of usurping 22 acre land worth Rs 100 crore with fake documents, a case was registered against the former minister MR Vijayabhaskar, his associates Yuvaraj, Praveen, Marappan, Shobana, Selvaraj, Siddarthan, Ragu and the witness Easwaramoothy under eight section.

Prior to the registering case, the ex-minister Vijayabhaskar who sensed that his name would be included in the case, Vijayabhaskar and his brother Sekar approached the Karur District Principal Sessions Court for anticipatory bail. But the case which opened up for hearing on June 25, the Judge R Shanmugasundaram dismissed the application. However, the case was transferred to CBCID by the time after a complaint by Prakash, a business man from Vangal in Karur with the Town Police claiming that the former minister Vijayabhaskar and his brother had usurped his 22 acre land worth Rs 100 crore with fake documents.

Subsequently, Vijayabhaskar, his brother and their associates went into hiding while the CBCID searched Vijayabhaskar and his brother Sekar’s premises and later the team was searching for them across the country.

Meanwhile on Monday, Vijayabhaskar applied for anticipatory bail with the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court but the case was transferred to Madras High Court.

While the hearing was yet to take place, the CB-CID sleuths who were searching for the ex-minister in various places including Ariyalur, Perambalur,Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai and Kerala for the past 35 days, arrested Vijayabhaskar and Praveen at Thrissur in Kerala on Tuesday.

Subsequently, they were brought back to CB-CID office at Thinnappa Nagar in Karur and commenced their interrogation.

In the meantime, the information about the arrest of Vijayabhaskar was spread like a wildfire among the AIADMK cadres who gathered in front of the CB-CID office and raised slogans.

However, a heavy posse of police was deployed in front of the CB-CID office, Town police station and the court.