By Shefali Anand and Ashutosh Joshi
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- India’s Minister of Textiles Dayanidhi Maran.
India's telecom scandal has taken more casualties in the stock market.
On Thursday, the share price of Sun TV Network Ltd. fell 28% to close at 272 rupees ($6) and that of airline SpiceJet Ltd. fell 16% to 34.50 rupees (77 cents), on news that a petition was filed linking former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran to an ongoing corruption probe.
Dayanidhi Maran's brother Kalanithi Maran owns Sun TV and has a large stake in SpiceJet. A spokeswoman for the Central Bureau of Investigation said Dayanidhi Maran is part of their wide-ranging preliminary investigation into the telecom scandals which have been going on since January. She added that no new action involving Dayanidhi Maran has been taken in recent days.
Dayanidhi Maran is currently India's textiles minister and served as telecom minister from February 2004 until May 2007. He was succeeded by A. Raja, who has been arrested along with 13 others in relation to the alleged rigged sale of telecom licenses in 2008. Dayanidhi Maran and Mr. Raja both belong to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.
The petition filed by a Delhi-based civil interest nonprofit on Wednesday, asked the Supreme Court to accept new evidence including a piece that ran in Tehelka magazine last week as part of their ongoing public interest litigation case on the telecom scam. This case, which was filed in 20 [...]
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