Kanagaraj, Jayalalithaa's former driver who she had sacked,
was on a bike when he was hit by a car on Friday evening.
Kanagaraj,
Jayalalithaa's former driver who she had sacked, was on a bike when he was hit
by a car on Friday evening.
According to The
Newsminute, Kanagaraj, who was once Jayalalithaa’s driver, died in an
accident near Attur in Salem on Friday night.
Kanagaraj, for
whom the police had launched a hunt, was on a bike when he was hit by a Karnataka
registered car at 8:30 pm on Friday.
The report said
that Jayalalithaa had sacked Kanagaraj, who is from Chennai, after she found
out that he was misusing her name.
But he was
already aware of the details of the Kodanad estate, said the report, and visited
it many times in the past.
Of the 7 people
detained so far in relation to the case, 3 were allegedly associates of
Kanagaraj.
Kanagaraj
befriended one Sayan of Thrissur when he was working at a bakery in Coimbatore.
Following Jayalalithaa's death, he hatched a conspiracy with Sayan to loot the
Kodanadu bungalow.
Sayan then
arranged for a five-member gang from Thrissur, said the report.
On the night of
April 24, the men broke into the Kodanad estate after killing security guard Om
Bahadur and severely assaulting another.
The report
claims that the men then broke into the rooms Jayalalithaa and Sasikala used at
the bungalow, and possibly made away with some valuables.
Of the 7
arrested in the case, one is a tipper driver, another a temple priest and the
third a labourer. The identities of the others are not known, said the report.
Police plan to
bring all seven to Nilgiris district on Saturday.
Though the
Kodanad property has six gates and guards were guarding all of them on the
night of April 24, it has not been visited since February, after Sasikala was
arrested in the Disproportionate Assets case.
The estate was
used as a summer retreat by Jayalalithaa to escape the Chennai heat, said
reports.
Incidentally,
it is also part of the allegations of disproportionate assets against the late
Tamil Nadu CM.
