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New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar, currently in Tihar Jail as co-accused in the 2G spectrum scam, Monday moved the Delhi High Court for bail.

Counsel for Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, and Sharad Kumar said: “We have filed the bail application of Kanimozhi and Kumar before the Delhi High Court.”

The application is likely to come up before Justice Ajit Bharihoke Tuesday.

Kanimozhi’s counsel, V.G. Pragasam and S.J. Aristotle, moved the 29-page application which said: “The allegations against the petitioner (Kanimozhi) in the supplementary charge sheet are false, baseless and fabricated. She is innocent and sought to be falsely implicated in the present case.”

“She is a qualified lady, a post-graduate, and presently a member of parliament (Rajya Sabha), with effect from July 2007. At present, she is the whip of the DMK in the Rajya Sabha,” said the application.

Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar were taken into judicial custody and sent to Tihar Jail May 20 after a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here rejected their bail pleas citing “the magnitude of the crime”.

Kanimozhi’s bail plea said that “she is innocent and has been falsely implicated due to biased media reporting concocted on the basis of conjectures and surmises”.

“She is having a school going child to be taken care of. Her husband is employed abroad,” said the application.

“The order of the learned special (CBI) judge whereby the bail application of the petitioner was dismissed is untenable…,” it said.

The CBI named Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar as co-conspirators in its April 25 supplementary charge sheet after it traced an illegal money trail of Rs.214 crore in the scam to the Kalaignar TV.

The charge sheet also named Cineyug Film’s Karim Morani as well as Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. Aggarwal of Kusegaon Realty.

Co-accused and currently in Tihar Jail are former communications minister A. Raja, his aide R.K. Chandolia, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka of Swan Telecom and Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless, two officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) Gautam Doshi and Hari Nair. A third ADAG official Surendra Pipara has also been named and is undergoing treatment for a heart problem in hospital.

Earlier in the day, Justice Bharihoke denied bail to Goenka, Chandra, Doshi, Nair and Pipara, and a special CBI trial court dismissed the anticipatory bail application of Morani, asking him to appear before it Tuesday.

During Kanimozhi’s appearance before the special CBI trial court at the Patiala House district court complex earlier, she had a brief, emotional reunion with her minor son Aditya.

She was seen playing with her son, who sat on her lap through the court proceeding.

The 43-year-old MP hugged her son several times and held his hand and chatted with him, smiling at times.

Aditya kissed his mother twice as she was speaking to her husband Aravindan.

Kanimozhi, her husband and her son held one another’s hands as she was about to be taken back to the lock-up in the court complex after the hearing.

She kept looking at her son till the last minute and said “bye” to him at least thrice.

Her son stood outside the lock-up gate to catch her glimpse.