The bail pleas of DMK leader Kanimozhi and seven others accused in the 2G spectrum allotment scam were Thursday dismissed by a CBI special court here. The court will begin its trial from Nov 11.
All eight bail applications are dismissed, special CBI Judge O.P. Saini said. The eight are Kanimozhi, Sharad Kumar, Karim Morani, Rajeev B. Agarwal, Asif Balwa, Shahid Balwa, R.K. Chandolia and Siddharth Behura.
The Rajya Sabha MP reached Patiala House from Tihar Jail earlier this morning to hear Judge OP Saini's verdict on her bail application. She has been charged with helping former Telecom Minister A Raja, also from her party, of accepting a 214-crore kickback. The Rajya Sabha MP has been in jail since May 20.
In court, top leaders of her party like actor-politician Khushboo and TR Baalu were waiting to hear the judge's decision. Her half-brother MK Stalin is in Delhi too; DMK sources said he was hoping to meet her because the party believed she was likely to get bail today.
Kanimozhi's arrest has resulted in political drama in Delhi and Chennai. The alliance between her father and the Congress has been tested by the accusations levelled against her by the CBI, and the agency's earlier opposition to her bail. This time around, however - her fourth attempt at bail - the CBI had said in court that it does not object to her leaving jail.
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