HC notice to police in case against ex-DMK MP Rithesh Kumar

The Madras High Court today issued notice to the police on a petition seeking transfer of probe into a Rs 3-crore cheating case against former DMK MP Rithesh Kumar alias K Sivakumar to the CB-CID.
A criminal original petition by NRI Athinarayanan Subramanian alias Shiva, who hails from the city, came up before Justice M S Ramesh who directed the Commissioner of Police and the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch III, Vepery, Chennai, to file reply by November 16.
The petitioner, who returned to India from the US in 2013 because of his son's illness, alleged that he paid Rs 3 crore to the former MP for his business purposes.

Earlier, the Madras High Court had directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Central Crime Branch, to probe the cheating complaint against the former DMK MP.
The petitioner alleged that Rithesh has shifted his allegiance from the DMK to the AIADMK and was using his power to influence the case.
Since he is with the ruling dispensation now, the police are reluctant to act against him, he alleged and sought transfer of the investigation from the ACP, CCB, to the CB- CID.