By IANS
Madurai : Vaikuntarajan, a Jaya TV shareholder and owner of VV Minerals, moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail.
He claimed that the Tamil Nadu government was "attempting to implicate him in a false case of illegally mining garnet" from the state's southern Kanyakumari district.
Justice G. Rajasuriya asked the petitioner to surrender before a local magistrate and obtain regular bail.
"In spite of the fact that the deputy director of mines did not file a complaint under the Atomic Energy Act against me for mining garnet sand, the ruling party is trying to get me arrested," Vaikuntarajan said in his application.
Vaikuntarajan recalled that ruling DMK had assured the state legislative assembly a few months ago that he would not be arrested when AIADMK MLAs complained that false cases were being filed against him.
A few months ago, Vaikuntarajan had accused the DMK government of putting pressure on him to divest his holdings in Jaya TV.
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had alleged that Vaikuntarajan was in fact the 'benami' owner of Jaya TV.
The matter has been listed for further hearing on July 25.