Were examined during the trial in the disproportionate assets case against the AIADMK chief
Were examined during the trial in the disproportionate assets case against the AIADMK chief
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Money matters: Former Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa. File pic
The five are Veerabahu, an executive engineer with the Public Works Department (PWD) in Tamil Nadu, Subbaiah, also an engineer with PWD, Krishnamurthy, Rajendran, a videographer and Parthasarathy, a photographer. All of them were re-examined.
The witnesses maintained that their statements during the chief (first) examination were correct, but however resiled from those made during cross-examination.
Defence counsel Navaneetha Krishnan said the witnesses were being 'tutored' and were doing so under police pressure. When trial began, Krishnan moved an application before Special Court Judge B M Mallikarjunaiah, stating that the 161 statements of Veerabahu was not there on the records and hence he could not be recalled for re-examination.
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