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New Indian Express
4 hours ago
- New Indian Express
Avadi sub-registrar, bizman booked for usurping Rs 2 crore government land
CHENNAI: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) has booked a former sub-registrar of Avadi for allegedly helping a real estate businessman fraudulently register government poramboke land worth Rs 2.34 crore in his relative's name in 2021. An FIR was registered last week under the Prevention of Corruption Act and sections of the BNS against S Maligeshwari, who is currently serving as Arani sub-registrar, and businessman V Somasundaram. The case pertains to a government land in Poonamallee block of Tiruvallur. In August 2021, Somasundaram prepared a settlement deed to show he was gifting two plots – measuring 8,720 sqft and 3,014 sqft and classified as government poramboke land – to his brother. The document was registered by Maligeshwari at the Avadi sub-registrar office, the DVAC said. The agency alleged that Somasundaram bribed Maligeshwari to process the registration without verifying original pattas and other revenue records to ensure the executing party had rightful ownership. The poramboke land in question had no supporting parental documents or legal ownership records, the DVAC said.
New Indian Express
4 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Transformer scam: Reply sought from former Electricity Min Balaji, DVAC
CHENNAI: Justice P Velmurugan of the Madras High Court on Friday ordered notice to the director of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), the chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO), former electricity minister V Senthil Balaji and others on a petition filed by E Saravanan, deputy secretary of AIADMK lawyers' wing. The petition had sought directions to the DVAC to register an FIR in connection with the alleged irregularities in procurement of transformers. The petitioner alleged that Rs 397 crore loss was inflicted on the public sector undertaking due to the irregularities in procuring 45,800 transformers at a cost of Rs 1,068 crore during 2021-23. He stated the DVAC has not taken appropriate action based on his representation submitted in May seeking registration of FIR and setting up a special investigation team to probe the matter. The judge further directed the Registry to tag this petition with the one filed by Arappor Iyakkam on the same issue and adjourned hearing by four weeks.
The Hindu
5 days ago
- The Hindu
Tangedco foreman held on bribery charges near Katpadi
A 50-year-old Tangedco foreman at Virinchipuram village near Katpadi in Vellore was arrested by sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) for demanding and taking a bribe of Rs 3,000 to provide new electricity connection. DVAC sources said that the complainant V. Echhappan (67), a driver, and his family had been living in Vellore. He has built a house in Virinchipuram village recently. He decided to get a new domestic power connection to his house. Accordingly, he paid a deposit amount and other charges of Rs 27,000 to Tangedco through online payment. Subsequently, Echhappan visited the Tangedco office in the village with the receipt and requested the S. Kirubakaran (50), foreman at Tangedco office, to install Tangedco poles to provide new electricity connection to his house. Echhappan told DVAC officials that Kirubhakaran allegedly demanded a sum of Rs 3,000 for the purpose. Unwilling to pay the bribe, Echhappan lodged a complaint with the DVAC. A seven-member team led by K. Sankar, Deputy SP, DVAC (Vellore), and Inspector S. Mythili laid a trap and caught Tangedco foreman Kirubakaran. A case has been registered against him. Later, he was arrested and lodged at Central Prison in Vellore.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Time of India
Perur tahsildar, assistant arrested for taking bribe
COIMBATORE: Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Friday arrested the Perur taluk tahsildar and his assistant on charges of taking a bribe from a man for issuing a solvency certificate. Ranjith Kumar, working in a private firm, applied for a solvency certificate at the Perur taluk office in Coimbatore on June 19. After clearance from officials, the application was waiting for approval by tahsildar Ramesh Kumar. On July 15, when Ranjith Kumar met tahsildar Ramesh Kumar and inquired about his pending application, the latter demanded a bribe of Rs 50,000. He allegedly instructed Ranjith Kumar to hand over the bribe on July 25. Ranjith Kumar lodged a complaint with the DVAC. Based on the complaint, DVAC sleuths planned a trap. As instructed by the DVAC officials, Ranjith Kumar on Friday visited the Perur taluk office and met the tahsildar. The tahsildar directed Ranjith to hand over the amount to his office assistant C Saravanan. Saravanan received chemical coated currency notes from Ranjith and kept them in his pants pocket. Upon receiving the pre-arranged signal, DVAC officials reached the spot and arrested the tahsildar and his assistant.
New Indian Express
6 days ago
- New Indian Express
TN drug control director caught red-handed taking bribe for licence, held by DVAC
CHENNAI: A senior health department official has landed behind bars after he was caught red-handed accepting a bribe from a cosmetics businessman to issue a government licence. As the accused, PU Karthikeyan, the director (in-charge) of the Tamil Nadu Drug control department, kept referring to complete all 'formalities' (code word for bribe) to clear his application, the businessman recorded their conversations. This eventually led to the director's arrest by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Monday. The ordeal for Vellore-based S Saravanan began on July 10 after he approached the state drug control department for obtaining a licence to sell herbal cosmetics manufactured by a company he runs with his wife. He followed the due process by filling forms and also paid Rs 20,000 as fee. When he went to submit the completed application, a clerk offered to take him to the drug control director and took a fee of Rs 500, which was paid through UPI. After scanning the papers, Karthikeyan stressed that 'formalities' would have to be completed for the licence to be issued. Saravanan initially did not catch the drift, however the term 'formalities' popped up again when he returned to the director's office a few days later and recorded the entire conversation, DVAC's FIR notes.
