CBI’s special task has arrested V. Gowthaman, former Additional Private Secretary to Dayanidhi Maran; S. Kannan, chief technical officer of Sun TV; and K.S. Ravi, electrician with the television channel in Chennai. The arrests were made to “collect some crucial evidence which may be unearthed during their custodial interrogation,” a CBI spokesperson said.
The case pertains to allegations that a virtual telephone exchange was set up in the house of Dayanidhi Maran to enable data transfer benefiting the Sun TV group owned by his brother Kalanidhi Maran. The CBI had registered a case against Dayanidhi Maran and some BSNL officials for allotting over 300 high-speed telephone lines.
