| MUMBAI:
Former union minister for communication and IT Dayanidhi Maran has sent a legal
notice to AIDMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) chief and former Tamil
Nadu CM J Jayalalitha, demanding an apology for her allegations. In
his notice, Maran has sought a public apology from Jayalalitha, failing which
he has threatened to file a defamation case demanding Rs 100 million as compensation. Jayalalitha
had, in an election rally, alleged that Maran had misused his position to help
Sun TV, which is owned by his brother Kalanithi Maran, in uplinking of programmes
through telephone lines. While
addressing a rally in Virudhunagar, in Tamil Nadu, she claimed that the CBI enquiries
were stymied after a patch up between the families of Tamil Nadu chief minister
M Karunanidhi and the Maran brothers. Jayalalitha
said that Maran had been given 323 telephone connections with latest technology,
by which audio and video could be transmitted. He even had a telephone exchange
in his house for official purpose. The telephones in his house had been linked
secretly by an underground cable to Sun TV and it was used to send Sun TV programmes
to various parts of the world, she claimed. | 
