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  • DVAC sleuths raid former Kancheepuram municipal commissioner

    DVAC sleuths raid former Kancheepuram municipal commissioner

    CHENNAI: Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption held a raid on the house of the Dindigul corporation commissioner on Friday after it was found that there were many malpractices during her tenure as the Kancheepuram commissioner.

    R Maheshwari was the Kancheepuram municipal commissioner during 2020-2021 and at that time while purchasing the COVID essential items there were many allegation of financial irregularties.

    After Kancheepuram was upgraded as a corporation Maheshwari was transferred to Dindigul and then when the officials went through the expense of earleir years they found that over Rs. 32 lakhs money was not properly accounted for in the purchase of COVID prevention items.

    Later a complaint was filed in the DVAC and the sleuths went to the health section in the Kancheepuram corporation and held a raid and recovered a few documents from the office.

    Following that on Friday early morning the DVAC held a raid on the house of Maheshwari in Dindigul.

    The raid was also conducted in the houses of Sanitary sub Inspector Sindhavalli and Sanitary inspector Ramesh Kumar.

    The raid is in progress and sources said that few important documents were seized by DVAC during the raid.

  • Officials of IG registration arrested for graft by DVAC

    Officials of IG registration arrested for graft by DVAC

    CHENNAI: Two officials working at the office of IG registration in Kuralagam complex were caught red handed while accepting bribe to know the approval status of documentation of certain sales deeds.

    Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) team organised a trap on Thursday and both the accused were caught when they reiterated their earlier demand of bribe and accepted Rs.25,000.

    Both accused were arrested and sent for remand.

    The arrested were identified as Ramesh, assistant executive engineer and Vijayakumar, junior assistant.

    During the house search at the residence of AEE Ramesh an unaccounted money Rs.8.6 lakh was seized and an unaccounted money Rs 18,000 was seized from Vijaya Kumar at his office.

    The complainant is SBI – Panel advocate and looking after documentation works of sale deeds of his clients. The complainant had done documentation work for 11 clients. From the concerned SRO, Guduvanchery files were sent for field inspection to the office of Assistant Executive Engineer OD / Registration department. When he tried to know the status of the files, the registration dept officials demanded the bribe, noted DVAC officials.