HC directs special team to probe allegations made against officials

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Friday directed the Director General of Police to represent a peculiar squad headed by DIG, Salem Range, Santhosh Hadimani, to probe allegations and antagonistic allegations with respect to unaccounted currency seized from the bureau of Deputy Director of Fire and Rescue Services successful Tirunelveli.

Justice B. Pugalendhi said the allegations and the antagonistic allegations made earlier the tribunal contiguous a disturbing picture. A superior allegation has been made that definite persons associated with the Fire and Rescue Services Department and the Vigilance Department acted successful performance to falsely implicate officials by planting wealth and creating circumstances suggestive of corruption.

It is said ₹2.25 lakh recovered during the astonishment cheque by DVAC was planted successful the office. At the aforesaid time, determination are allegations that the officials progressive successful the process of issuing and renewing occurrence information licences person been demanding amerciable gratification. Allegations person been made some of corruption successful the issuance of occurrence information licences and of a conspiracy to falsely implicate officials, the tribunal said.

The tribunal said it is of the presumption that the lawsuit warrants transportation of investigation. It is not successful quality that a important magnitude of wealth was recovered from the bureau during the astonishment check. However, determination is simply a circumstantial allegation that the wealth has been planted earlier the astonishment check. The CCTV footage produced earlier the tribunal shows a idiosyncratic entering the bureau during the erstwhile nighttime carrying a bundle and aboriginal coming retired without it, the tribunal said.

The tribunal directed the peculiar squad to look into the allegations made against the officials of the Fire and Rescue Services and the Vigilance Department, behaviour an unbiased probe and reason the probe successful 3 months. The tribunal issued the directions portion disposing of petitions filed successful transportation with the case.