Kanimozhi allowed to attend Parliament

DMK MP Kanimozhi, facing trial for her alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation case, was on Monday allowed by a Delhi court to participate in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament. Special CBI Judge O P Saini allowed Kanimozhi's plea to attend the session after the CBI did not oppose it. The court permitted her subject to the condition that her counsel should "actually participate" in the judicial proceedings. Kanimozhi was granted bail on November 28 last year by the Delhi High Court after she had spent over six months in Tihar jail following her arrest on May 20, 2011. "It is submitted by Kanimozhi that she is a member of the Rajya Sabha and Budget Session of Parliament is commencing from today and she may be allowed to attend the same to which senior public prosecutor (of the CBI) has no objection. "She is permitted to attend the session subject to the condition that her identity shall not be disputed and her counsel shall remain present in the court for participating in the court proceedings and shall actually participate in the court proceedings," the special judge said. Kanimozhi, along with former Telecom Minister A Raja and others, including three telecom firms, are facing trial in the case. During the day's proceeding, the court also recorded the statement of prosecution witness Mumbai's Deputy Registrar of Companies (RoC) Rajender Singh Meena.

Kanimozhi, 4 others get bail in 2G case, to spend one more night in Tihar Jail

DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others, who were on Monday granted bail by the Delhi high court in 2G spectrum case, will have to wait one more night behind the bars as release warrants could not be issued by the special judge due to procedural delay.

Kanimozhi's bail hearing begins, CBI unlikely to oppose

Two days after charges were framed against her in the 2G scam, DMK MP Kanimozhi Monday moved a fresh plea for bail in a special CBI court.

'Testing times ahead for DMK'

DMK MP Kanimozhi's arrest in the 2G spectrum scam Friday has come as a big blow to the party after its massive defeat in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls and will put it through testing times in the coming days, political observers said.

Kanimozhi saves the day

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Raids in Tamil Nadu, office of NGO linked with Kanimozhi searched

In statewide raids in connection with the second generation mobile spectrum scam, CBI today searched the premises of an NGO linked with Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's MP daughter Kanimozhi, auditors of her mother and former telecom minister A Raja.

Kanimozhi echoes DMK’s resident status demand for Lankan Tamils in Rajya Sabha

Chennai, :

DMK MP Kanimozhi

DMK MP Kanimozhi echoed her party’s demand for permanent resident status to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in India on Thursday, speaking in the Rajya Sabha.

Urging the Centre not to treat a part Lankan Tamils who came as refugees as foreign nationals, Ms. Kanimozhi said those Lankan Tamils who came in the aftermath of 1983 riots and until 1993 were considered refugees, but those who came after 1993 are treated like foreign nationals, according to a 1996 order of the Centre (G.O 370).

Subjecting the Sri Lankan Tamil nationals to G.O 370 would lead to unnecessary legal hurdles for them. The inflow of Lankan Tamil refugees was continuous one. Relaxation of rules will greatly benefit them, the DMK MP told the Rajya Sabha.

She said there are 73,074 Lankan Tamil refugees in 114 refugee camps across the state. “32,240 Lankan Tamil refugees live on their own outside the camps in the state,” she added.

Ms Kanimozhi pointed out that the Tamil Nadu government has been helping the refugees with food, clothes, shelter and financial aid with the help of the Centre.