Madurai: Bail has been granted to the former union minister MK Alagiri in land grabbing case by Madurai court on Tuesday. Notify that Alagiri had been expelled from DMK and has been alleged in land grabbing case. The Madras High Court had already granted him anticipatory bail in the case.
The Crime Branch and Anti Land Grabbing Special cell had filed a case against Alagiri, son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, alleging he had created false documents for cheating and grabbed 44 cents of land belonging to Vinayagar temple for Dhya Engineering college at nearby Sivarakottai, run by a trust headed by him.
The complaint about the alleged land-grabbing had been lodged by the Assistant Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) Board, Karunanidhi.
Justice K Kalyanasundaram had granted bail to Alagiri On August 28 till September 3 in the case and posted it for hearing on that date.
Notify that Alagiri is founder-president of MK Alagiri Educational Trust and had then submitted that the Trust, set up to provide education to poor students, had constructed Daya Engineering College and had purchased several tracts of land.
He said the land in question was located outside the college and purchased from one Sampath through proper means by payment of cheque and sale deed.
He said that it originally belonged to another man who had given it to a woman in exchange for the land he had given to her.
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