AIADMK ex-minister R Indira Kumari, spouse convicted in corruption case

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Updated At : 12:19 PM Sep 30, 2021 IST

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Chennai, September 29

A special court here on Wednesday convicted AIADMK former Minister R Indira Kumari and her husband A Babu in a case of misappropriation of government funds to the tune of Rs 15 lakh and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for five years each.

N Alicia, the presiding officer, awarded the sentence after finding them guilty of offences. Kumari later joined the DMK in 2006. The court also awarded three-year imprisonment to retired IAS officer P Shanmugam, who had then served as the Director of Rehabilitation of the Disabled and acquitted the former minister’s former Personal Assistant Venkatakrishnan, after imposing a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. — PTI

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