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The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) connected Friday (June 5, 2026) informed the Madras High Court of having registered a First Information Report (FIR) regarding the cash-for-jobs ailment successful the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) department during the tenure of erstwhile Minister K.N. Nehru of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, Advocate General Vijay Narayan said, the DVAC had registered the FIR connected Friday aft obtaining his ineligible sentiment connected the matter. The submission was made pursuant to an urgent notation made earlier the Bench by elder counsel P.H. Arvindh Pandian representing Mr. Nehru.
Though 2 reappraisal petitions and a contempt-of-court petition related to the substance were slated to beryllium listed for proceeding adjacent lone connected June 23, the A-G said, Mr. Nehru’s counsel had chosen to marque a notation connected Friday “probably due to the fact that they had immoderate beforehand information.” The A-G highlighted that the High Court, connected February 20, 2026, directed the DVAC to registry the FIR “forthwith.”
Nevertheless, the DVAC did not obey the tribunal bid and the past DMK authorities went to the grade of filing a reappraisal petition against it. Mr. Narayan said, the contiguous government, led by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), does not mean to proceed with the reappraisal petition and the bureau of the authorities counsel (criminal side) shall marque an endorsement for withdrawing the State’s reappraisal petition.
This would permission the tribunal with conscionable the reappraisal petition filed by Mr. Nehru, successful his idiosyncratic capacity, and a contempt-of-court petition filed by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Rajya Sabha subordinate I.S. Inbadurai, against the DVAC officials, connected whose writ petition the tribunal had ordered the registration of the FIR forthwith, the A-G said.
On going done the records related to the reappraisal and the contempt petitions, the A-G said, helium recovered the tribunal to person lone recorded the undertaking of the contempt petitioner’s counsel successful April 2026 that helium shall not precipitate the substance until the adjacent day of proceeding connected June 23. Therefore, “I opined that the DVAC tin spell ahead, and truthful they person registered the FIR,” helium said.
The A-G besides said, determination was thing connected grounds with respect to immoderate undertaking having been fixed by his predecessor P.S. Raman that the DVAC shall not instrumentality immoderate coercive enactment until the adjacent day of hearing. Even if immoderate specified unrecorded oral undertaking had been fixed by the erstwhile A-G, it would person been done “only nether the instructions of the past authorities which wanted to support its Minister,” Mr. Narayan said.
What Nehru’s counsel said
Mr. Pandian, connected the different hand, said, “a precise unusual statement is being made earlier the tribunal that the undertaking fixed by 1 A-G does not hindrance the different A-G. Utimately, it is the law bureau which matters. The authorities volition ever beryllium the same. It does not alteration with a alteration successful the radical moving it. We volition record our objections adjacent to the withdrawal of the State’s reappraisal petition.”
After proceeding some sides, the judges suggested that it would beryllium amended if the DVAC does not precipitate the contented until the agreed adjacent day of proceeding connected June 23, 2026 and said, they shall walk elaborate orders, too, regarding this successful the people of the day.
