NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, JAN 25
Former AIADMK MP K.C. Palanisamy, who was removed from the party in March 2018, was arrested in Coimbatore on Saturday morning.
He was arrested by the police on the alleged charges of misusing party name and symbol.
Base on a complaint lodged by Kandavel, president of Muthukavundanpudur village panchayat near Sulur in Coimbatore. In his complaint Kandavel alleged that K.C. Palanisamy of misusing the party flag and symbol without being a member of the party.
Sulur police have registered a case against him under various sections on Friday night and detained him on Saturday early morning from his residence near Lawly Road in the city. Later he was taken to Magistrate’s house for remand proceedings, sources added.
Palanisamy was booked under eleven sections including sections 419 (Cheating by personation), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating) and 482 (Punishment for using a false property mark) IPC read with 66 C, 66 D of IT Act.
Palanisamy was removed from the party in March 2018 after he urged the party to back a no-confidence motion against the BJP-led central government, if it did not take a favourable stand on the Cauvery issue. Later he met Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in presence of Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam in March 2019. And it was expected that he could have been reinducted into the party. However, the AIADMK party functionaries said that he was not reinducted into the party.
Palanisamy, who was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989 from Tiruchengode constituency, was also former MLA from Kangeyam assembly constituency.
It was alleged that Palanisamy was using party name and symbol, attended functions giving speeches and later uploaded them in an online portal. He also used the party name and symbol to recruit membership for the party using a mobile application, police sources here said.
