Another Case Concocted!

"Effort to arrest again: Jayendra [Swamigal]'s petition for anticipatory bail."

Chennai Feb 22: Kanchi Jayendrar [Swamigal] has filed a petition to Chennai High Court saying that, since the Kanchipuram police are trying to arrest me again, the court should grant me anticipatory bail .

He has said in the petition:

Police have registered a case saying that two lawyers threatened approver Ravi Subramoniam asking him to retract his statement in the Sankararaman murder case.

On the basis of the complaint made by Ravi Subramoniam's wife Chitra on 19th Feb., a case has been filed on myself and lawyers Revathy, Nadira Banu, Shanmugam and Thyagarajan.

The case has been filed under IPC Cr Code Sections 201 (tampering with a witness), 213(helping an accused escape punishment), 450(trespassing with the intention to committ a crime) and 506 (threatening).

Chithra's complaint says that the lawyers Revathy and Nadira Banu met Ravi Subramoniam in the Kanchi Sub Jail and talked to him. At that time, they threatened him to retract his statement already made or else he will have to face serious consequences, the complaint states.This complaint is false.

Following this, [the lawyer named in the complaint], Nadira Banu got anticipatory bail from Chengalpet court. The Kanchi Bar Association has also passed a resolution condemning the police's action in this matter.

I, (Jayendrar) have no involvement whatsoever in this matter. There is absolutely no truth in this complaint. No one, not even the lawyers could meet Ravisubramoniam in Kanchi Sub Jail.

This case has been filed to intentionally void the bail granted to me by the Supreme Court and the High Court.
This case has been fabricated with an intention of creating a reason to cancel the bail granted to me. This trick the police is plying, is misuse of the law. It is [done] with an intention of [getting] revenge.

Hence an order should be given granting me anticipatory bail so the police do not arrest me. I firmly promise that I will not tamper witnesses or evidences in the Sankarraman murder case, said Jayendrar in the petition.
This petition comes for hearing on Tuesday [Feb 22, 2005].

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[Editor's note: Well, this is a bit strange. On Feb 10th, Ravi Subramaniam, who is heavily guarded in Kanchi Sub Jail, wrote a letter to Magistrate Uttamaraaj, supposedly complaining that Revathy and Nadira Banu threatened him with his life on 2 occassions to change his testimony. For some odd reason, the case was never registered.

In the meanwhile, Nadira Banu applied for, and obtained anticipatory bail from Ramayana-reading Judge Akbar Ali.

9 full days later, with his letter still languishing presumably in some corner of the court system, Ravi Subramaniam's wife, Chitra suddenly appears at Shiva Kanchi police station to file an FIR alleging this outlandish story about her husband being threatened while in police custody.

Co-incidentally, just 1 day later, we hear that Ravi Subramaniam was admitted to the ICU at Kanchi Hospital.

Hmmm....

There is also a rather confusing story floating around that Ravi Subramaniam complained that two members of the Special Police team asked him to sign blank pieces of paper.

One wonders what might happen next to Ravi and his family. Will his family be placed under "police protection", so the police can keep a close eye - and a firm grip - on them as well?

We watch and wonder...]