KOTTAYAM: Dharmarajan, the absconding convict in the Suryanelli sex scandal, over which Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P J Kurien is facing the heat, was arrested on Friday by Kerala police from a hotel at Sagar in Karnataka.
The third accused in the 17-year-old case, Dharmarajan, a former lawyer, was arrested by a five-member special team of Kerala police, said C Rajagopal, superintendent of police, Kottayam. The accused will be presented before the Kottayam special court on Saturday.
Dharmarajan's hideout was located around 11am on Friday by tracking signals from his cellphone. At the time of arrest, Dharmarajan was found with his head tonsured and wearing a cap. He told the police that he stood by whatever he had said about the case so far. The phone he was using was in the name of Sasikumar of Chickmagalur.
Dharmarajan had told a television channel from an undisclosed location a few days ago that P J Kurien was involved in the case as charged by the victim. Thereafter, the special court here had issued a warrant to arrest him. This is the second time that Dharmarajan is being arrested in the case. The police first arrested him in 2000 from a village in Udupi district, where he was working in a rock quarry.
In 2002, the special court awarded life term to all the accused in the case, including Dharmarajan. In 2005, the high court set aside this verdict and freed all the accused, except Dharmarajan. However, his life term was reduced to five years. He was out on bail in April 2005 and was to report back on May 20. Since then he was absconding.
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