DMK leaders may be quizzed in sex case
Chennai
Jan 12 2002
Some DMK leaders are expected to be questioned by police in connection with the raging scandal involving disgraced orthopaedic surgeon Prakash and his alleged pornographic racket as some photographs have surfaced showing the top brass of the DMK, including the supremo M Karunanidhi, posing with the doctor ' s brother Pradeep Lakshmanan at the latter ' s wedding in Chennai.
The photographs that were released to the media show Karunanidhi, wearing a white shawl, with the newly-wedded couple at their reception, while the other photographs taking during the marriage show DMK leaders like Ponmudi, T R Balu and Arcot Veerasamy at the function, held at the hall in Anna Arivalayam premises in 1990.
Since so many top leaders of DMK had attended the marriage at the time when the party was in power, police suspect that they have a close link with the family of Prakash. It is also suspected that it is that nexus that might have emboldened Prakash to embark on such nefarious activities that had now landed in the dock.
Prakash had uploaded the obscene photographs and videos shot by him at various places, including his farm house on the shores of Bay of Bengal in Emballapuram village in Ponneri Taluk, only with the help of Pradeep, who is based in the US.
Another startling information that had come out in the process of investigation is that about 38.5 acres of land in Emballapuram village, close to the farm house of Prakash, has been obtained on lease by Mohanamball, wife of Karunanidhi ' s son M K Tamilarasu.
The land belonging to Sinthamani Sivan Koil was taken on lease allegedly using political influence for the amount paid for it was just Rs 38,000. Prakash, it is suspected, could also have obtained his piece of land through the political clout he had with the DMK.
In view of these revelations, police are digging deeper into Prakash ' s political connections, apart from his business network in which it seems he had partners in places like Pondicherry to help him make pornogrpahic material for circulation as VCDs and software for x-rated web-sites.
Prakash, it is now alleged, was let off the hook in a case under the Arms Act registered against him in 1998 after he picked up a quarrel at a discotheque in a star hotel and then shot at a man with his revolver. Police have reopened the case registered at F-2 police station in Nungambakkam.
