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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
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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 : 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.

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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 : Do not under estimate the power of a poisonous snake – Mylapore Broker Gurumurthy. In an order issued today, government of Tamil Nadu appoints former HC Justice S Baskaran as Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Human Rights Commission. 1/n

This S Baskaran, is a native of Thiruthuraipoondi and belongs to the community of “Mudhaliyar” He was a puppet of notorious judicial broker “Judicial Krishnamurthy”. This, S Baskaran, as long as he was a High Court Judge, 2/n

was a ‘string puppet’ of the said judicial broker ‘Judicial Krishnamurthy’.

S Baskaran is an alcoholic and also an ardent Hindu devotee (???) At the end of every Friday, he would start on a spiritual tour to worship Hindu gods, in his official car. 3/n

All logistics for his temple visits would be arranged by the said broker ‘Judicial Broker’. When Justice S.Baskaran retired, he had hundreds of “orders reserved cases”, add sources. 4/n

To quote an anecdote, when DVAC office staff ask for leave to visit temples, a senior police officer, whom this author personally know, use to say “work is worship”. 5/n
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DMK President MK Stalin after presenting a detailed complaint to Governor Banwarilal Purohit, speaking to media said, the complaints that have been given to the governor had already been given to DVAC, but to no avail. Since the DVAC failed to take action, 1/n

the DMK had moved court and Madras HC had ordered a CBI investigation against CM Edappadi Palanisamy, which was subsequently stayed by HC. The Governor has the power to order a probe, and told the media that Governor said “he will take appropriate action”. 2/n

Stalin also said, DMK will take these charges to people’s court.

However, Stalin should be aware that, Banwarlial Purohit’s only interests in Tamil Nadu is to protect the interest of Brahminical forces. 3/n

Sources say, apart from, supporting Anna University VC Soorappa, an RSS stooge, to protect him from a Commission of Inquiry, Banwarilal has been pressurizing EPS, to convey the land encroached by SASTRA University, for more than three decades. 4/n

In a detailed order, Madras HC has categorically rejected SASTRA’s request to re-convey and regularize the encroachment of more than 50 acres of government land and the appeal of SASTRA to Supreme Court has also turned down. 5/n
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Sources : This author has been continuously maintaining that the Brahminical hegemonic forces are surrounding Tamil Nadu from all sides and they are seeking revenge for Periyar’s social justice.

One Sridhar Vembhu, @svembu is the CEO of Zoho Corporation. He is 1/n

High Net Worth individual. He is the founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation. According to Forbes, he is the 59th richest Indian in the world with a net worth of US$2.5 billion as of 2020

Vembu runs the in-house Zoho University, which provides training to students who have 2/n

completed 12th grade and have certain math and tech skills.
Vembu has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton and started his career at Qualcomm in 1994. Zoho is building a new 375-acre campus in Austin, Texas, which will also house its Zoho University. 3/n

Recently, he announced the release of a new Messaging App called “Arattai” and said this is an alternate to WhatsApp.

Vembhu owns a palatial house in Pleasanton California. With such huge money and wealth, the said Vembhu is purchased 4 acres land in Mathalamparai, Tenkasi under the guise of improving villages. In an interview to Forbes India, the said Vembhu had this to say 5/n
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Sources : Makkal Neethi Maiyam Chief Kamalhasan was furious for my interview that I termed him a B Team of BJP. Link of the interview is as follows :

Kamalhassan furiously tweeted, “ I am not anyone’s B Team”
An hour ago, Kamal tweeted as follows : Two girls, “Arshitha Agarwal” and “Kunisha Agarwal” had helped poor students, who are not able to get gadgets 2/n

to help poor students for attending online classes.
People are wondering who are these Arshitha Agarwal and Kunisha Agarwal. They both are the daughters of Chennai City Commissioner Mahesh Kumar Agarwal IPS. 3/n

Today morning, I tweeted, in regard to the participation of Mahesh Kumar Agarwal’s daughters in the event held at Chennai CoP office with regard to the above event where iPads were distributed for poor girls, which was held in Chennai Commissioner’s office. 4/n

While it is a semi-official function, Mahesh Kumar’s Agarwal’s daughters participated in the event.
I had tweeted as follows : “The @chennaipolice_ Commissioner is doing a great job of distributing free iPads to poor students with the help of NGOs. 5/n
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