Mother who lost her son wants Justice in “Dinakaran “attacked case.
Exactly 18 months after Tamil daily Dinakaran’s Madurai office was attacked and partially burnt down by a mob, resulting in the death of three employees, one of the victim’s mother has moved the High Court, accusing the CBI of succumbing to political pressure. Fearing danger to her life, G Thilagavalli, the mother of Gopinath, who was burnt alive along with Vinoth Kumar and Muthuramalingam on May 9, 2007, said the CBI had "willfully and wantonly" left out the names of chief minister M Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri and the sitting mayor of Madurai, Thenmozhi, from the chargesheet.
The DMK government had handed over the investigation to the CBI, as men linked to the DMK were allegedly involved in the incident. The CBI filed the chargesheet on August 6, 2007 before the chief judi-cial magistrate court in Madurai. It cited 17 persons as accused. Noting that the entire incident was carried out on instructions from and at the instigation of Azhagiri and Thenmozhi, the petitioner said the mayor was physically present during the whole incident. “Police willfully and wantonly excluded their names for obvious reasons,” she said. Thilagavalli said she had sent representations to the CBI director as well as the Supreme Court. Though she had preferred a private com-plaint before the judicial magistrate court at Melur in Madurai district, she could not be present in court on the date of hearing due to threats from the henchmen of the chief minister's son, she said.
Ever since she filed a petition before the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court, she has been receiving threatening calls, she said. She has filed the present petition seeking the High Court's permission to file a private complaint before any one of the metropolitan magistrate courts in Chennai instead of competent courts in Madurai. Justice K Mohan Ram, before whom the matter came up on Thursday, adjourned it to November 10 to decide its maintainability. The attack on Dinakaran, which belongs to the Sun TV media group, followed a survey published by the daily on the chances of various persons to succeed Karunanidhi as DMK leader. The survey showed that Azhagiri’s popularity was very low among DMK supporters. The survey enraged Azhagiri’s supporters who torched the daily’s Madurai office.
The mother of the victim must get justice and the culprits in the back-door must be punished, that is the ambition of all people in Tamilnadu.
