The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a petition by former telecom minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran in connection with the illegal telephone exchange case.
Maran moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order that cancelled his anticipatory bail, giving three days time to the DMK leader to surrender before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
This comes a day after a three-judge bench comprising Justice T S Thakur, Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice R Banumathi allowed the plea for urgent hearing of the petition seeking anticipatory bail in the case.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi had appeared for Maran and sought urgent listing of his plea.
The Madras High Court had on Monday cancelled Maran's interim anticipatory bail in the controversial telephone exchange case and directed him to surrender before the CBI within three days while rejecting his charges of political vendetta.
The High Court held that "prima facie" Maran had "misused" his office by obtaining telephone connections "illegally" and allegations against him were backed by material.
CBI has registered an FIR against Maran and others alleging that more than 300 high-speed telephone lines were provided at his residence here and extended to his brother Kalanithi Maran's SUN TV channel to enable its uplinking when Dayanidhi Maran was Telecom Minister from 2004-07.
(With PTI Inputs)
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