More trouble for BEML chief

Chennai: The chairman of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), involved in the controversy over the Tatra trucks case, has strayed into fresh trouble in Chennai.
The Chennai police issued a community service register , a preliminary document before an FIR is filed, against V R S Natarajan, chairman of BEML, for allegedly trespassing a private land in Velachery on Sunday last.
According to a complaint from N Jayachandran of Alandur, Natarajan and several others came to the site at Velachery in government vehicles and trespassed on to the property, apparently to build a compound wall. Jayachandran, who claims to have a power of attorney duly executed by the property owners, objected and lodged a complaint. Natarajan and others left the spot after the arrival of police.
Police also received a counter-complaint from Natarajan’s mother-in-law Mangayarkarasi against Jayachandran and issued a similar CSR against Jayachandran.
Police said Jayachandran was in possession of two plots bearing plot numbers 223 and 224 at Bhuvaneswari Nagar in Velachery. Though, there is a civil dispute case pending in court, Jayachandran claimed, Natarajan and a few others tried to trespass and erect a compound wall at the plot.
Separately, the Defence Ministry on Wednesday sought an explanation from Natarajan for serving a legal notice on former army chief General V K Singh and demanding an apology for his alleged defamatory statements against BEML on the Tatra truck issue.