The Kodanad heist and murder case has been resurrected after the change of rule in Tamil Nadu and it has been reaching its climax by haunting former Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami as a nightmare. Amid being surfaced with tension, Palaniswami has now been facing fresh trouble after some of the accused had approached the Madras High Court seeking a direction to examine the former Chief Minister as the prime suspect of the case has confessed that the robbery has happened under the instruction of Edappadi Palaniswami.

According to reports, three of the ten accused in the case had moved their petition to the Madras High Court to sought a directive Palansiwami and they also had demanded that VK Sasikala, the close aide of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has to be investigated in the matter, who took over the post of the General Secretary of ADMK after the demise of Jayalalithaa. In a criminal revision petition filed under section 233 of CrPc, three of the accused - Deepu, Satheesan, and Santhosh Samy had put out the request to examine Palaniswami and VK Sasikala. 

These three accused had also requested the court to pass the directive of examining Jayalalithaa's foster son VN Sudhakaran, former Nilgiris collector Shankar, former Nilgiris district Superintendent of Police Murali Rambha, state organizer of ADMK's commercial wing Sajeevan, manager of Kodanad estate Natarajan, and Sajeevan's employee Sunil. In the petition, the three alleged that the session judge permitted the examination of Natarajan alone and rejected the plea of other witnesses. 

The petition has also highlighted that only 41 out of the 103 witnesses were examined and said that the prime accused in the case Kanagaraj, who was the driver of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, was killed in a road accident days after the heist but the officer who probed his death had conducted the investigation in a reckless fashion and left the culprits unpunished. The three accused had also underlined that the police acted in a biased manner in order to save some persons in power. 

The trio had noted that the Kodanad estate was in the control of VK Sasikala and Elavarasi and they were in the position to depose the valuables missing after the crime had occurred. The petition has said that the police didn't record the statements of material witnesses who would be able to talk about the scene of the crime. It also has stated that the sessions judge, who was hearing the case, had rushed the proceedings of the case and the investigation officer had deliberately left out to record the statements of material witnesses. 

The petition has come as fresh trouble for Edappadi Palaniswami and VK Sasikala as the Kodanad case has come to the limelight when the Nilgiris police had recently interrogated Sayan, the prime suspect of the case along with Kanagaraj. Two years ago, Sayan had confessed to a journalist that the robbery at the estate had happened in the instruction of Edappadi Palaniswami. As the DMK government is gripping up the case, shocking details have been emerging against the former Chief Minister for the past few days, suggesting that the case has reached its climax.

It has been reported that the petition from the three accused will be taken for hearing by the High Court. On the other side, ADMK spokesperson and former minister D Jayakumar had earlier said that the DMK is attempting to trap the ADMK leaders by filing a false case against them. It must be noted that Congress MLA Selva Perunthagai had recently brought a special attention motion in the assembly over the Kodanad case.