Tamil Nadu: Police issue lookout notice against former minister Rajenthra Bhalaji

MADURAI: Police have issued a lookout notice at airports against former AIADMK minister K T Rajenthra Bhalaji who has been absconding to evade arrest in two cases of job racketeering registered against him by the Virudhunagar district crime branch (DCB) police.
Official sources said that as many as eight special teams have been formed by Virudhunagar district police to nab Bhalaji.The first case is against Bhalaji and two of his accomplices for collecting money from 23 people on the promise of getting them government jobs in Aavin and government departments. The second is based on a complaint from K Nallathambi, a co-accused in the first case, who claimed that Rajenthra Bhalaji had used him as a tool to collect money from people promising jobs in Aavin.
The former minister has been booked under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 506(i) (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. Bhalaji had led his party’s protest in Virudhunagar against the DMK government on December 17. When he was informed that both his anticipatory bail petitions were dismissed by Madras high court, he left the spot by switching a few cars and absconded. Bhalaji had also filed a special leave application before Supreme Court challenging the dismissal of his anticipatory bail petitions. The lookout notice is an attempt to prevent him from leaving the country.