Cremation shed scam
Chennai: A CBI Court on Thursday convicted former AIADMK Minister and now DMK Rajya Sabha Member T M Selvaganapathy and four others and sentenced them to two years Rigorous Imprisonment each in the cremation shed scam.
Delivering the verdict, Ninth Additional Special Judge for CBI cases S Malathy also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on them.
Apart from Selvaganapathy, who had served as the Rural Development and Local Administration between 1991 and 1995, four others, including two retired bureaucrats, were also convicted.
Selvaganapathy later quit the AIADMK and joined the DMK in 2008 and was made a Rajya Sabha Member in March 2012.
They had used JRY funds knowing fully well that the construction of cremation sheds was not an identified item under Jawahar Rozgar Yojana and such work should not be entrusted to co-operative societies and that payment of advance to the societies was prohibited by the State Government. (UNI)
