Chennai:
M Karunanidhi, the 88-year-old chief of the DMK, has said he does not know why his grand-son Durai Dayanidhi is hiding.
A court in Madurai in Tamil Nadu today issued a non-bailable warrant for Mr Durai Dayanithi who has been underground for two months. A company owned by him has been accused of illegal mining and theft.
"The government and judiciary should proceed legally. I'm not worried," Mr Karunanidhi said. He added, "the AIADMK government is indiscriminately filing cases against DMK cadre and already I had asked for a CBI probe into the whole issue of granite mining from the earlier AIADMK regime onwards".
His elder son and Mr Dayanidhi's father, M K Alagiri is a union minister; the DMK is the second-largest member of the Prime Minister's coalition.
The DMK was voted out of power in Tamil Nadu last year. The party accuses chief minister Jayalalithaa and her AIADMK of persecuting its leaders with fake legal cases. The police had a few weeks ago alerted immigration authorities to help them in preventing Mr Dayanidhi from leaving the country. However police say they have strong evidence that the controversial Olympus Granites, the company in which Durai is Director had indulged in illegal mining and theft.