CHENNAI: TVS Motors chairman Venu Srinivasan has approached the Madras high court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with a missing idol case pertaining to Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple in Chennai.

He claimed that he had spent Rs 70 lakh from his personal funds for the painting of various Sanandhis, Gopurams and floorings.

Submitting that he is innocent, Srinivasan added that he had no other connection with the temple other than being a devotee of Kapaleeswarar.

