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Time of India
11-07-2025
- Time of India
Two govt officials arrested for taking bribes
Trichy: Sleuths attached to directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) on Friday arrested a land surveyor and a sub-inspector of survey in two separate cases in Trichy. Police said that P Murugesan from Poonnusangapatti near Thuraiyur approached a land surveyor P Raja, 35, to survey around 31 cents of his land, to obtain a field measurement book (FMB). However, Raja demanded Rs5,000 as a bribe to survey the land. Unwilling to bribe, Murugesan approached the DVAC. Acting on the complaint, a team led by DVAC DSP G Manikandan set a trap. As Murugesan handed over chemical-laced currency to Raja, he was caught red-handed and arrested at his office on Friday. In another graft case, Rabiya alias Rabiyathul Basriya from Valluvar Nagar near Trichy airport recently purchased a plot in Kottapattu in her husband's name. Seeking individual patta, the woman approached a sub-inspector of survey K Thaiyalnayagi, 49, at Trichy East taluk office. Thaiyalnayagi demanded a bribe of Rs13,000. But Rabiya filed a complaint with DVAC. As per instructions, Rabiya handed over Rs13,000 chemical laced cash to Thaiyalnayagi. Subsequently, DVAC unit police caught the accused official while accepting the bribe. Further inquiries are underway.
Time of India
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
3rd Tamil Nadu minister to face graft trial after HC nixes discharge order
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu's rural development minister I Periyasamy will face trial in a Rs 2 crore disproportionate assets case after Madras high court overturned Monday his discharge by a Dindigul court and ordered the trial's completion within six months. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Veteran politician Periyasamy becomes the third minister in the current DMK-led govt - after Duraimurugan and MRK Panneerselvam - to have a discharge order reversed by the Madras high court. Justice P Velmurugan, allowing a revision petition filed by directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC), directed the special court for cases against MPs and MLAs in Dindigul toreopen proceedings against the Tamil Nadu rural development minister. DVAC's chargesheet accuses Periyasamy, his wife Suseela, and sons Senthilkumar, an MLA, and Prabhu of amassing assets between 2006 and 2010. The Dindigul court had earlier discharged all four, prompting DVAC to appeal to Madras high court. Counsel for TN rural development minister argued the FIR was flawed and based on erroneous calculations of his family's assets.
