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The Hindu
27-05-2025
- The Hindu
Man sentenced to four-year RI for receiving bribe
Special Court for Trial of Cases under Prevention of Corruption Act, Madurai, sentenced Chellapandi, who worked as an assistant at the office of the Usilampatti Tahsildar, to four-year rigorous imprisonment for demanding and accepting bribe amount to issue a legal heir certificate. Judge R. Barathiraja also imposed a fine of ₹3,000 on Chellapandi. The case of the prosecution was that Chellapandi demanded and accepted ₹3,000 as bribe in 2014 from the complainant R. Jayamani for making arrangements to issue a legal heir certificate in the name of the complainant's sister Thedaselvi. The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), Madurai Unit, had registered a case in 2014. The DVAC sleuths laid a trap and arrested Chellapandi while he was receiving the bribe amount.
New Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Madras High Court tells TN govt to file status report on 41 DVAC FIRs in Tasmac corruption case
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the state government to file a status report on the 41 FIRs registered by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) regarding corruption in the liquor retail business of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac). The direction was issued by a vacation bench of justices G R Swaminathan and V Lakshminarayanan when a PIL petition filed by K Venkatachalapathy @ Kutty, of Tirunelveli, came up for hearing on Thursday. The bench adjourned the hearing by three weeks after getting an undertaking from Advocate General (AG) P S Raman that he would advise the home secretary 'not to close the pending cases till next hearing'. When the bench expressed apprehensions that the state may close the FIRs in order to render the PIL infructuous if adjourned, the AG said such closure cannot be done unilaterally by the state. 'It cannot be done unilaterally. The closure reports have to be filed in the jurisdictional judicial magistrate court and the magistrate has to apply his mind before ordering closure,' he pointed out. The counsel for the petitioner had pressed for a status report on the FIRs registered since 2017.
The Hindu
16-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
DVAC files case against former Thanjavur MLA
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Thanjavur, has filed a case against the former Thanjavur MLA M. Rengasamy on charges of amassing of wealth during his tenure as member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Mr. Rengasamy was elected from the Thanajvur Constituency in 2011 on the AIADMK ticket and served as Thanjavur MLA between November 2016 and September 2017. Later, he joined the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, floated by a break away group from AIADMK. When he became the Thanjavur MLA in 2011, his assets, including those of his family members, stood at ₹1.04 crore. It rose to ₹2.83 crore in September 2017. Preliminary investigation and calculation of assets and debts and others, it was ascertained that the quantum of assets disproportionately acquired by the accused, Mr. Rengasamy, in his name, his wife and son during the check period of May 1, 2011, to September 30, 2017 worked out to ₹1.49 crore, DVAC sources said. Hence, a case under Section 173 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023 and relevant sections of Prevention of Corruption Act was booked against Mr. Rengasamy, his wife and son by the DVAC, Thanjavur unit, on May 15, the sources added.
The Hindu
29-04-2025
- The Hindu
Former VAO sentenced to four-year RI for receiving bribe
The Special Court for Trial of Cases under Prevention of Corruption Act in Madurai on Tuesday sentenced a former Village Administrative Officer to four-year rigorous imprisonment for demanding and accepting a bribe amount to issue a solvency certificate. Judge R. Barathiraja also imposed a fine of ₹2,000 on K.S. Balasubramanian, former Tahsildar, Tirumangalam taluk office. The case of the prosecution was that the then VAO in 2015 demanded and accepted a bribe amount of ₹5,000 from the complainant S.P. Saravanan of Kasipuram to issue a solvency certificate. The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Madurai Unit, registered a case in 2015. The DVAC sleuths had laid a trap and arrested the then VAO while he was receiving the bribe amount.
The Hindu
28-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Madras High Court reverses discharge of T.N. Minister I. Periyasamy from disproportionate assets case
The Madras High Court on Monday (April 28, 2025) reversed the discharge of Rural Development Minister I. Periyasamy, his wife P. Suseela, and two sons P. Prabhu and P. Senthilkumar from a 2012 disproportionate assets case, and directed them to face trial. Justice P. Velmurugan allowed a batch of four criminal revision petitions filed by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) in 2018 and directed a special court for corruption cases in Dindigul to frame charges against the accused and conduct trial on a day-to-day basis. Since the family had been accused of accumulating wealth, disproportionate to known sources of income, between 2006 and 2010, when Mr. Periyasamy served as Minister for Revenue and Prisons, the judge ordered completion of trial within six months. The DVAC wing in Dindigul had registered the First Information Report (FIR) against the Minister and his family members on March 8, 2012, and conducted searches on their premises before filing a chargesheet before the Dindigul Chief Judicial Magistrate's court. According to the chargesheet, the Minister and his family members were in possession of disproportionate assets to the tune of ₹2.01 crore and hence, they had committed offences under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988. The investigating agency claimed that the assets had been accumulated during the check period between May 13, 2006, and March 31, 2010. However, the CJM discharged all the four accused, leading to the present revision petitions filed by the DVAC in 2018.
