Chennai, Dec 13 In a swift response to AIADMK’s complaint, the Election Commssion Saturday ordered the transfer of Inspector General of Police, South Zone, S.S. Krishnamoorthy.
Tamil Nadu’s major opposition party has complained about police searching the hotel rooms of party leaders, including former chief minister O. Panneerselvam, in Tiruchendur where they were campaigning for the Dec 19 by-polls.
In a complaint faxed to the Chief Election Commissioner Saturday, K.A. Sengottaiyan, the AIADMK whip in the state assembly, said the rooms he and Panneerselvam were staying in at the Mini Sivamurugan Hotel at Tiruchendur were raided at about 1.45 a.m. by S.S. Krishnamoorthy and his subordinates.
Alleging that the search was conducted on the directions of union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri to “embarrass” him and other party leaders, Sengottaiyan accused Krishnamoorthy of “acting in a biased manner under the instructions of the ruling DMK party”.
The raid was conducted on the eve of AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa’s campaign in the constituency Saturday and Sunday.
This is the second time in a short period that Krishnamoorthy has been transferred by the election commission.
During the by-election to the Tirumangalam assembly constituency in January, 2008, he was transferred.
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