The Madras High Court on Wednesday allowed a petition filed by DMK candidate N Marudu Ganesh to amend his earlier prayer and seek a CBI probe into the alleged bribery of voters leading to cancellation of the RK Nagar by-election in April, 2017.
Impleading the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a bench of justices M Sathyanarayanan and R Hemalatha issued notice to the agency returnable by February 11.
The court was allowing a miscellaneous petition by Ganesh seeking to amend his prayer in the main petition related to the byelection and seek CBI probe by registering the April 21, 2017 complaint of the Returning Officer of the constituency on the alleged use of money to bribe voters.
Ganesh and others had originally moved the court seeking registration of FIR against those accused of bribery in the bypoll to the assembly segment, which was cancelled a week before it was to be held on April 12, citing a report from the Income Tax department on searches conducted by it. PTI