AIADMK election symbol bribery case : TTV Dinakaran and aide get bail
New Delhi, June 1 (IBNS) : A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to AIADMK deputy general secretary TTV Dinakaran and his aide Mallikarjuna in the two leaves bribery case, reports said.
Dinakaran, the nephew of the jailed party chief V Sasikala was arrested on April 25 for allegedly attempting to bribe an Election Commission official to get the undivided AIADMK's election symbol, 'two leaves', for the Sasikala faction.
Police had earlier said Dinakaran, through his middleman Sukesh Chandrasekar, had struck a deal for Rs 50 crore to win th.e party symbol in favour of the faction.
Police recovered Rs 1.30 crore in cash in his possession when he was arrested from a five-star hotel in Delhi.
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