The minister’s son and the dead actress

This is her - the woman whose death under mysterious circumstances has now caught a senior politician and his son in such a bind.

The politician’s son was named today in Makkal Osai. The daily said S Velpaari was investigated by the police for some five hours on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning into the circumstances relating to actress K Sujatha’s sudden death on June 25.

This was the daily’s lead story and it had splashed prominently photographs of Sujatha and Velpaari.

Malaysia Nanban too had a lead story about the questioning but they did not name anyone. The daily just said that a ‘minister’s son was questioned for seven hours’.

And unsurprisingly Tamil Nesan had no mention of the case. This daily however reported in its inside pages that its CEO Velpaari would be officiating a charity run on Aug 25. Coincidently it will be two months since the death of Sujatha. (Am not suggesting anything here!)

Now that Makkal Osai has revealed the mystery man in Sujatha’s life (he was also her boss in Maika Holdings), I wonder if other dailies will follow suit.

More interesting will other details - all kept below murmurs at present - be out in the public too?

We shall wait and see.

On another matter, I would only believe that we have some semblance of press freedom in this country when Tamil Nesan reports that Velpaari was called in for questioning by the police in relation to the sudden death of his ‘employee’. Or at least reports about the ongoing investigations.

[my entry on this matter yesterday]