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Special Court sends former DMK Minister Anbil Mahesh to judicial custody till Nov 6

Chennai, Nov 4 (UNI) The Special Court for Prevention of Corruption Act cases on Wedesday remanded Opposition DMK leader and Former Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi in judicial custody till November 6, 2026, after the expiry of his three days police custody for questioning in the Rs 100 crore school fraud case, today.
Special Court Judge L.S.Sathyamoorthy ordered the judicial remand after Anbil was produced before the court.
During the hearing, the Judge asked the former Minister whether he was treated properly, given the food sought by him and medical treatment to which Anbil replied in the affirmative. After recording it, the judge remanded him in judicial custody till November six. He was then escorted to Puzhal Central prison.
The Court had on November 2 granted three days police custody to question Anbil Mahesh in the private school recognition fraud case.
Anbil Mahesh was arrested by the CCB police on October 26 hours after the Madras High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail petition in the graft case, which according to the investigators could cross Rs.400 crores.
He was the first ex-DMK Minister to be arrested in a corruption case after the TVK government headed by Chief Minister Vijay assumed office in May and started digging into various corrupt activities involving former Ministers during the previous DMK regime.
Police said the arrest was based on the material evidences collected during the raids conducted at Anbil's locations and those connected with him.
The case was registered under Sections 316(5) (criminal breach of trust by a public servant) and 318(4) (cheating that dishonestly induces a person to deliver property), read with Section 3(5) (joint liability arising from common intention), of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Mahesh was also accused of collecting money from more than 1,000 private school managements in the guise of a "party fund" during his tenure as school education minister from 2021 to 2026.
So far, four others, including former DMK MLA V Muthukumar, the prime accused BT Arasakumar, and two others, were arrested in the case.
While dismissing his advance bail plea, Mr Justice V.Lakshminaryanan observed that the ex-Minister was not an ordinary person and was politically influential who could tamper with the evidences. The Judge also said considering the huge involvement of money trail in the name of party funds (an euphemism for corruption coined by the present regime), which the police claimed as "financial terrorism", the beneficiaries could be identified only by interrogating the ex-Minister. The police also opposed it saying his custodial interrogation was necessary to ascertain the money trail and identify the beneficiaries of the party fund.
Anbil has filed a regular bail petition before the court and it would be taken up for hearing tomorrow.
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