A special court today directed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Amma) faction leader T T V Dinakaran and an alleged middleman, arrested in an Election Commission bribery case, to respond to Delhi Police's plea for voice samples.

Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry asked the counsel for Dinakaran and Sukesh Chandrashekar to file their replies on May 15.

Delhi Police's Crime Branch submitted before the court that they needed the voice samples for their probe into the Rs 50-crore graft case.

It said they had a CD containing audio recordings of phone conversations between Dinakaran and Chandrashekar and others, and they wanted to compare the audios with the voice samples.

After the counsel for the two accused sought time to go through the application, the court listed it for May 15.

Dinakaran and Chandrashekar were also brought to the court from judicial custody in pursuance to its production warrants issued earlier.

Meanwhile, the court also extended till Monday Chandrashekar's judicial custody, which would have expired tomorrow.

Dinakaran, his close aide Mallikarjuna and alleged hawala operator Nathu Singh are also in judicial custody till May 15.

Dinakaran was arrested here on the night of April 25 after four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe an unidentified EC official to get the undivided AIADMK's 'two leaves' election symbol. -- PTI