RS MP obtained bail with fake certificates

By C Shivakumar; Express Buzz; Thursday, October 28, 2010

CHENNAI: A Rajya Sabha MP obtained anticipatory bail by allegedly producing fake documents in a court, according to a RTI document.

According to documents available with Express, DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Vasanthy Stanley submitted fake documents to additional chief metropolitan magistrate to get bail in a case relating to an alleged bank fraud. But Vasanthy, who became the Rajya Sabha MP in 2008, denied the allegations and told Express, “To my conscience I have not done any mistake. You are talking about an incident that happened in 2006. That has to be enquired into. I will verify with my lawyer.”

Interestingly, she was a guarantor in all the transactions of her husband Stanley Rajan who obtained a loan of Rs 40 lakh from Bank of Baroda, Anna Nagar Branch, by mortgaging his apartment. CCB documents revealed he produced another set of documents for the same apartment and obtained another `25 lakh from SBI, Mount Road.

He adopted the same method and got loans from LIC, State Bank of Travancore, Vijaya Bank, Syndicate Bank, State Bank of Hyderabad, UCO Bank and Dena Bank, according to the CCB. While CCB arrested Rajan, Vasanthy managed to get anticipatory bail in all the cases by depositing title deeds worth `25 lakh and also on executing a personal bond for `1 lakh with two sureties each. One Ramadoss, stood as surety and submitted his property document and Radhakrishnan and Pushparaj were sureties. They submitted solvency certificates and affidavits duly signed by the tahsildar, Tambaram. But now it has turned out that the documents were forged. The documents revealed that the tahsildar, after perusing the solvency certificates of three sureties found that the signatures and seals found in the solvency certificates were fake. He has denied the existence of Ramanathan in the taluk office who had signed the certificate. The documents also revealed that the property document submitted as surety for `25 lakh was also fake. Ramadoss had submitted his property document bearing No.2856/1988 registered in Tambaram Sub-Registry. Whereas the encumbrance certificate of the same document showed that the property belonged to V P Kuberan and K Rukmani.

Court documents show Vasanthy offered to deposit title deeds worth `25 lakh accepted by the court. Legal experts say the HC could suo moto initiate contempt proceedings against her and also direct the registry to file a plaint with the magistrate concerened under section 191 (Giving false evidence), 192 (Fabricating false evidence to be used in a judicial proceedings which carries a seven year term).