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AIADMK Rajya Sabha subordinate I.S. Inbadurai connected Thursday (February 26, 2026) filed a contempt of tribunal petition against the Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (V&AC) A.T. Durai Kumar (in-charge) for not having filed an FIR successful transportation with the alleged cash-for-jobs scam successful Minister K.N. Nehru’s Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department.
Earlier successful the day, the MP’s counsel made an oral notation earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan that the court, on February 20, 2026, ordered the registration of the FIR forthwith but the DVAC had not done truthful adjacent aft six days. The Chief Justice said the substance would beryllium heard if an due petition gets filed successful the court.
Subsequently, the MP filed a contempt petition against the DVAC Director (in-charge) accusing him of having wilfully disobeyed the tribunal orders. In an affidavit filed successful enactment of his contempt plea, Mr. Inbadurai said that the scam was of precise superior nature, successful which bribe amounts ranging from ₹25 lakh to ₹35 lakh had been obtained from candidates to capable up 2,538 posts of Assistant Engineers, Junior Engineers, and truthful on.
He said that the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) had unearthed credible materials to fishy that the wealth was obtained done hawala transactions and thereafter brought into the banking system. Those materials had been collected during a search-and-seizure cognition carried retired by the ED astatine the residences of the Minister’s brothers N. Ravichandran, K.N. Manivannan, and 2 different associates.
After being convinced of the gravity of the charge, the High Court connected February 20, 2026, expressed displeasure implicit the DVAC having conducted a preliminary inquiry, without registering an FIR, and ordered that the FIR indispensable beryllium registered forthwith since the prima facie materials regarding the offence had been shared by nary different than a Central bureau tasked with the work of probing wealth laundering cases.
Despite the tribunal order, the DVAC had not registered the FIR. Hence, the petitioner claimed to person submitted a practice to the DVAC connected February 25, 2026, impressing upon the request to comply with the absorption forthwith. There was nary enactment adjacent thereafter, and the petitioner complained and urged the tribunal to punish the IPS serviceman holding the station of Director of V&AC.
