Delhi Police team leave for Chennai with Dhinakaran

A Delhi Police team probing the Election Commission bribery case on Thursday travelled to Chennai with arrested AIADMK (Amma) leader TTV Dhinakaran and his aide to gather details about “illegal channels” used for transferring money from Chennai to Delhi.

The Crime Branch team reportedly took the 9.55 a.m Air India flight along with Dhinakaran and Mallikarjuna. The police had secured warrants from a city court to search the Chennai residents of Dhinakaran and Mallikarjuna as part of its probe.

Police will also be confronting Dhinakaran and Mallikarjuna along with the arrested middleman, Sukesh Chandrasekar, to get the details of the money trail and the phone conversations between them.

In Chennai, police will try to recover the mobile phones through which Dhinakaran used to communicate with Chandrasekar.

Dhinakaran was arrested on Tuesday night following four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe an unidentified Election Commission official to get the undivided AIADMK’s ‘two leaves’ election symbol for his faction.