CHENNAI: CBI sleuths questioned PMK founder S Ramadoss and his personal assistant Natarajan on Sunday in connection with the 2006 murder of Muruganandham, an associate of AIADMK minister C Ve Shanmugam, sources said.The questioning took place at the CBI office at Besant Nagar from 11.30 am to 4.30 pm, according to sources. Both the CBI and PMK officials could not be reached for comment. The Muruganandham murder case had political ramifications earlier as the PMK walked out of the AIADMK camp in October 2009 after fighting the Lok Sabha polls together. On October 4, 2009 at an executive council meet at Thailapuram garden in Tindivanam, in which top guns of the PMK, including Dr Ramadoss and president G K Mani participated, it was formally decided to snap ties with the AIADMK. The party had said that C Ve Shanmugam was trying to falsely implicate party leaders, including, Dr Ramadoss in the case by filing an appeal in the Madras High Court. By mid-2009, the case emerged as a real thorn in the relationship between the two parties.It was reported that AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had turned down a request from G K Mani during a meeting in Kodanadu to withdraw the petition in the HC. Asked if it was true, Ramadoss told a press meet a day ahead of the 2009 council meeting that it was ‘half true and half lie.’ It later emerged that ex-MP K Dhanraj too visited Jayalalithaa at Kodanadu to discuss Shanmugam’s appeal in the HC. That the PMK still had some hope in the relationship was evident when Ramadoss (October 3, 2009) had said that his party would abstain from the bypolls to local bodies and instead back the AIADMK.
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