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Sources : A litigant named Dr. M. Geethanjali, approached the Madras HC, to redress her grievance wherein, she was denied an MD Opthalmology seat in PSG medical college whereas a candidate who got lesser rank than her was given the same seat. 1/n

 The petitioner also alleged that while the initial fee fixed by government at the time of admission was Rs.3 lakhs, PSG college demanded 35 lakhs.

Justice Anand Venkatesh of Madras HC in an elaborate and detailed order, 2/n
went in-depth into the issue and found that, private medical colleges are making a killing in PG medical admissions using the pandemic. 3/n
The Court observed, _“The governments are grappling with the situation and the normal functioning of the society virtually came to a standstill and slowly attempts are being made to restore essential functions with sufficient safeguards. 4/n
Unfortunately, attempts are also being made to take advantage of this situation to justify certain actions. There is an attempt to put every blame on the Corona Virus even where it did not have a direct nexus to the action performed by an institution or any 5/n
instrumentality of the State. There cannot be a greater sin than to make use of the present situation and gain advantage for one’s own self-aggrandizement. Again, this prelude has a lot of significance in the present case since an apparently 6/n
questionable action is sought to be justified by taking advantage of the pandemic.”_
Finding serious infirmities in the admission process, Hon’ble Justice Anand Venkatesh, directed a CB CID probe into the happenings during this year’s medical admission. 7/n
Court also ordered that, the investigation should be done by an officer not below the rank of a DSP.
CB CID Pradheep Phillip, for reasons that are not clear, chose a DSP named Gunavarman who was caught into allegations of IPL 8/n
betting when he was Inspector as the Investigating Officer for this case.
The CB CID probe is on. As part of the probe, one Dr. G. Selvarajan, MS, DLO, Secretary / Addl Director of Medical Education Selection Committee 9/n
was called by the CB. CID for being examined as a witness.
He was examined by one Maheswari, an Addl SP in CB CID. The said Selvarajan played ‘dalit card’. Addl SP Maheswari, was firm and said, the probe is nothing to do with caste. 10/n
After Dr Selvarajan left CB CID premises, there was a call from CM Secretary II Dr.S.Vijayakumar, IAS, a direct IAS officer of 1993 batch. He directed Addl SP Maheswari to meet him and she did meet him confirm sources. What transpired in the meeting is not clear. 11/n
Apart from this, Vijayakumar IAS called CB CID IG Shankar and instructed him that Dr Selvarajan, should not be made an accused in this case.
Highly placed sources say, the said Vijayakumar IAS, as Secretary II to CM does all the dirty works of EPS. 12/n
In fact he has been misguiding EPS which may lead to EPS’s arrest. He is not an IAS officer but a fixer and a tout say a senior IAS officer.

The said Vijayakumar is a dalit and using this dalit card, he has formed a closed group of Dalits among 13/n
IAS & IPS officers of TN cadre. Dalit officers, fearing his close proximity with Edappadi Palanisamy are falling prey to this Vijayakumar and carrying out his illegal instructions. The dalit officers’ proximity and nexus with Vijayakumar IAS 14/n
is at their own peril, as the said Vijayakumar will not sign in any files but will issue illegal oral instructions carefully over WhatsApp call.
Long back, Junior Vikatan, published a cover story, describing a power broker, “Delhi Murali” 15/n
as the next Governor of Tamil Nadu. The story also said, the said Delhi Murali was offered a cabinet post both by Sonia Gandhi and Modi. The story was a clear plant by Vijayakumar IAS and Junior Vikatan’s News Editor R.Balakrishnan, 16/n
who is working there for more than 25 years received a huge amount to do this cover story.
This façade was exposed by us, following which, Junior Vikatan, did a balancing story against this Delhi Murali. 17/n
https://t.co/nBDzBq03zd
Sources further add, the said Dr. Vijayakumar is poking his nose in every issue where there is money involved and he is the main reason for the bad reputation of TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy. 18/n
With problems mounting multifold for Edappadi Palanisamy, it is time, he shunts out this ‘Dalit Champion’ Dr Vijayakumar IAS (TN 1993) out of his office. 19/19
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Sources : BJP takes Dy CM OPS and his sons under their complete control. The carrot they dangled before OPS is ministership for OPS’s elder son OP Raveendranath, who is popularly known as General Tyre. 1/n

With OPS completely under their control, BJP targets EPS. Yesterday and today’s IT raids in Sri Pathy associates is directly targeted at Edappadi Palanisamy.

One of the Directors in this firm is Srinivasamoorthy. He is also a Director in an Erode based firm called, 2/n

Supreme Sago Industries Erode Private Limited. Along with Srinivasamoorthy, the other director in this Sago firm is one N.Ramalingam.

The Ramalingams are in-laws of TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy. The relationship between EPS and the Ramalingams are as follows : 3/n

Edappadi Palanisamy’s son Mithun Kumar is married to one Divya. Divya has a sister by name Saranya. Saranya’s husband’s brother is Chandrakanth Ramalingam. This is how the Ramalingams are closely related to EPS. 4/n

This Chandrakanth Ramalingam was earlier arrested in Bangalore in December 2016 for holding 46 lakhs of freshly minted new currency following demonetization.
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Sources : BJP / @RSSOrg makes deep inroads in Tamil Nadu.

TN Government started a local channel, named “Kalvi Tholaikatchi”. When the Channel was initiated on 27 August 2019, TN CM Edappadi Palanichamy said this : “Education is like eyesight. 1/n

The state government has taken this initiative to support students. The students can now learn from home,"

TN Government’s intention was to educate the children for NEET and other competitive exams. The broadcasts begin at 6 am and continue till 11 pm. 2/n

Entire cable distribution network in TN, barring a few districts partially are government controlled through a PSU called “Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (TACTV). 3/n

Jayalalitha mooted this and formed this to break the iron clout of KD brothers (Kalanidhi & Dayanidhi) in cable TV distribution. Earlier, KD brothers’ owned Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) controlled entire distribution of channels. 4/n

One Thanjai Jeeeva, an ADMK man, is a benami of TN Animal Husbandry Minister Udumalai Radhakrishnan. He is the State General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Cable TV Association. He controls the entire cable distribution business across the state. 5/n
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Sources : TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy, who claims to run “Amma’s government” has decided to accord the ceremonious farewell parade to disgraced police officer Jaffar Sait, who retires on 31.12.2020. While all DG level officers are eligible 1/n

for this parade on their retirement, no such honour was accorded to the DGPs who had retired in the recent past. A few of them are Ashok Kumar, SR Jangid, S. George, Ashish Bhengra, Asuthosh Shukla, Sri Lakshmi Prasad, RC Kudawla etc. 2/n

Rehearsal for Jaffar Sait’s ceremonious farewell parade is being held from 21.12.2020 at Avadi TSP Battalion grounds till date and the rehearsal would continue till 30.12.2020 say sources.

Edappadi Palanisamy should remember that Jayalalitha, 3/n


in 2011, immediately on assumption of her charge as CM in 2011, transferred Jaffar Sait to a post in the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police – Special Officer Mandapam Special Camp for Sri Lankan Refugees. 4/n

DVAC registered two criminal cases against Jaffar Sait on 23 July 2011 and he was suspended on 1st August 2011 and his headquarters was fixed as Ramanathapuram. Jayalalitha didn’t even allow him to come to Chennai. 5/n
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Thread #Hathras

Sources : The charge sheet filed by CBI in the #HathrasCase is filled with flaws and three innocents have been roped in as accused, in spite of them having strong alibis.

While the prime accused did commit the act and there is strong evidence against him, 1/n

the remaining three were implicated only based on their ‘tower location’ of their cell phones. Two of the accused who are implicated were employees of a dairy located a kilometre away from the scene of crime (SoC) and witnesses working in the dairy, 2/n

had given statements that the two accused were working in the dairy at the time of crime. The other innocent accused was present in a place away from SoC and witnesses had deposed that he too was not in the SoC.

CBI comprises fine officers with investigating skills. 3/n

They always do their job with due diligence keeping in mind the reputation of India’s premiere investigating agency. But, superiors, who are IPS officers on deputation to CBI always toe the line of the ruling regime and act as mercenaries. 4/n

Highly placed sources in CBI say, the Director of Prosecution of CBI, one Ms Sudha Rani concurred with the findings of the investigating officers that only one accused need to be charge sheeted. Ajay Bhatnagar, a 1989 batch officer of Jharkhand cadre, 5/n
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Sources : Rathinasabapathy, a retired rogue police officer is planning to create caste clashes in western belt.

Following the announcement of a committee by TN govt for finalising the modalities for caste census, this Rathinasabapathy a fanatic Gounder has formed 1/n

a new outfit called, “Rights of Backward Communities”. Rich Gounders, retired Gounder officers are part of this outfit. The said Rathinasabapathy in a meeting of this outfit, said, “the castes of enumerators who would visit households for census should be made public. 2/n

If a particular caste person (implying dalit) is sent for enumeration, he will give wrong data”

This outfit also demands removal of creamy layer for OBCs.

A background about this Rathinasabapathy. He belongs to of 1976 batch of Sub-Inspector. 3/n

In the year 2000 he was AC Intelligence Services (IS) in Coimbatore. It was just two years after the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast. This Rathinasabapathy sent a false report to govt, just ahead of budget session that there is going to another serial blast in Coimbatore. 4/n

Following the serial blasts in 1998, intelligence and security apparatus was strengthened and there was absolutely no possibility of such an incident. The said Rathinasabapathy, sent this false report with an intention to get medal. 5/n
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