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Officials from the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) seized a full of ₹ 25,850 unaccounted cash, 2 golden coins, and six caller silk sarees from the bureau of Project Director (PD), District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), S. Saranya Devi, 36, astatine the Collectorate successful Ranipet successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday.
DVAC sources said that taking vantage of the Pongal festival season, a ample fig of pending bills for works undertaken by DRDA were cleared by officials astatine the bureau for the past fewer weeks. The PD bureau of DRDA, which is located connected the archetypal level of the Collectorate, besides witnessed regular visitors with acquisition items ranging from silk sarees, household electrical items, golden coins, and metallic objects, DVAC officials said.
A squad of vigilance officials including S. Ganesh, DSP, DVAC (Ranipet) and DVAC’s Ranipet Inspector Vijayalakshmi, conducted a raid based connected a tip-off received by an Inspection Cell Officer (DVAC).
DVAC officials said that residents person complained of irregularities including other complaint and committee for sanctioning works successful agrarian areas including operation of escaped authorities houses for mediocre and nationalist works similar roadworthy laying and restoration of h2o bodies.
DVAC officials said that astir of the payments and commissions were made done online mobile telephone payments. DVAC officials seized 46 diaries from the bureau including from Executive Engineer (EE), DRDA, compartment and different sections. These diaries incorporate details of currency transactions for assorted sanctioned works, officials added.
As astir of the complaints received by DVAC referred to online mode of payments, DVAC is besides successful process of verifying slope transactions of officials successful the DRDA section. A probe is nether way.
