HC relaxes anticipatory bail conditions to Elangovan

: Madras High Court today relaxed the conditions of the anticipatory bail granted to TNCC President E V K S Elangovan, requiring him to sign at a police station daily in a case of alleged criminal intimidation and harassment.
Elangovan's counsel requested Justice S Vaidyanathan to relax the conditions laid down by the court while granting bail on August 24, that his client sign daily before the Thallakulam police station at Madurai.
The judge initially said Elangovan should sign before Teynampet police station here where the FIR was registered against him. The counsel then requested the court not to treat his client on par with others as he is a politician and leader of a national party, who has many political duties to attend to.

The judge then relaxed the anticipatory bail conditions.
On August 28, the HC had declined to relax the bail conditions and had restricted the number of persons accompanying Elangovan while fulfilling the norms.
Justice Vaidyanathan had rejected Elangovan's prayer that he be allowed to stay here and sign before the Inspector of a local police station.

He had ordered that two advocates could accompany him to the Thallakulam police station in Madurai and only two vehicles could be allowed in the station complex.
Elangovan had gone to the station in a convoy comprising 11 vehicles, which was questioned by the court a day earlier.

Besides Elangovan, Narayanan, a staff at the Kamarajar Arangam, an auditorium run by a TNCC-administered trust, was also granted anticipatory bail on August 24.
Justice Vaidyanathan had directed both of them to stay in Madurai for 15 days and sign and mark their presence in Thallakulam station at 10.30 AM everyday during the period.
The matter relates to a criminal intimidation case registered by police here on a complaint of a sacked TNCC trust employee Valarmathi.