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The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) has registered a lawsuit against an Additional Deputy Superintendent of Police (ADSP) and a backstage idiosyncratic connected complaint of demanding and accepting bribes from 2 petitioners, who had approached the Coimbatore City Police Commissioner’s serviceman with a complaint.
The accused person been identified arsenic ADSP M. Gunasekaran (57), main of the Police Recruitment School successful Coimbatore, and his subordinate D. Praveen (38) of Sriram Nagar astatine Podanur successful the city.
As per the First Information Report registered by the DVAC, A. Nagarajan and K.S. Noorullah, who are doing existent property business, petitioned the Commissioner connected June 28, 2023, alleging that V.U. Marudachalam, his sons M. Karthikeyan and M. Kumaresan cheated them with respect to the merchantability of a spot worthy ₹6.25 crore astatine Vellalore successful the city. The petitioners stated that they had entered into 2 unregistered agreements with the trio successful 2020 for which an beforehand magnitude of ₹ 2.42 crore had been fixed to them.
As the petitioners projected to signifier layouts for merchantability of plots successful the land, they came to cognize that a civilian suit was pending earlier a tribunal successful Coimbatore. When the petitioners demanded to instrumentality the beforehand amount, the sellers entered into a merchantability statement with 2 others connected May 18, 2022 and registered the papers astatine the Sub-Registrar Office, Singanallur.
According to DVAC, the ailment of Mr. Nagarajan and Mr. Noorullah was entrusted to Gunasekaran, who was past serving arsenic the Assistant Commissioner of Police, City Crime Branch, Coimbatore City. Gunasekaran negotiated with the petitioners and the antagonistic petitioners. As a result, Marudachalam agreed to instrumentality the beforehand magnitude of ₹2.10 crore successful 4 instalments.
During the dialog connected July 5, 2023, the constabulary serviceman insisted the petitioner’s lawyer to put 10% of undue vantage from them. He engaged Praveen for the postulation of undue vantage from the petitioners.
After respective negotiations, the serviceman demanded ₹5 lakh from the petitioners and coerced them to springiness ₹1 lakh to Praveen arsenic commission. As per the FIR, Gunasekaran yet demanded and obtained ₹4.4 lakh from the petitioners done Praveen connected August 31, 2023, a week aft the antagonistic petitioners settled the archetypal instalment of ₹50 lakh. Praveen collected ₹10,000 from Mr. Nagaraj successful UPI transaction successful the relationship of his woman Prasanna towards the portion outgo of the committee fixed by Gunasekaran.
