Kanimozhi awaits fate as bail hearing resumes

The special CBI court in New Delhi hearing the 2G spectrum case today resumed hearing on the bail plea of Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi.

Kanimozhi had applied for bail on Friday through her high-profile lawyer, former union minister Ram Jethmalani.

"Let us see what happens in court," the Rajya Sabha MP said as she arrived for the hearing this morning.

Kanimozhi has been accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of accepting bribes in collusion with her party colleague, former telecom minister A Raja, now in jail over the wrongful allotment of spectrum and licences in 2008.

Kanimozhi's bail plea – on the ground that as a woman, she is entitled to leniency – represents a turnaround from her position just a day earlier, when she had told TV channels that she would not seek bail, and expects no "leniency or special treatment'' because she is a woman.

All the people chargesheeted in the 2G scam so far have been denied bail and are in jail, among them the executives of some of India's biggest telecom companies.

Meanwhile, a report from Chennai says that chief minister Karunanidhi's Gopalapuram residence has been turned into a virtual situation room as almost all leaders of the DMK who are not in Delhi have converged there.

Quoting party sources, the report said that Karunanidhi was glued to the television from the morning. He was also being constantly apprised of the situation in Delhi over telephone.