New Delhi: TTV Dinakaran, AIADMK leader and nephew of Sasikala has been named in an FIR by the Delhi police Crime Branch on Monday, after a sum of Rs 1.5 cr was seized, allegedly aimed at influencing the war over the party’s election symbol of “two leaves”.After bitter fight had broken out between O Panneerselvam and VK Sasikala faction over the ‘two-leaf’ party symbol, the Delhi police had arrested S Chandrashekhar with the cash, and seized a BMW and a Mercedes car from him.

The Crime Branch has sent summons to Dinakaran to join the probe and has also sent a report to the Election Commission.

After his name was mentioned in the FIR, Dinakaran, candidate for the RK Nagar by-polls (J Jayalalithaa’s constituency) is due to meet his aunt and AIADMK Chief VK Sasikala on Monday at Bengaluru prison, where she is put up after she was found guilty in a Disproportionate Assets case.

Dinakaran is also facing a Foreign Exchange Regulations Act (FERA) violation case with Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing unexplained deposits of big chunks of money into his accounts between during 1991 to 1995. Jayalalithaa was CM at that time.