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The State authorities has suspended Deputy Inspector General of Police (Headquarters), Prisons and Correctional Services, M.K. Vinod Kumar, connected alleged corruption charges.
The bureau of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated that the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) had indicted Mr. Kumar past week for abusing his authoritative presumption to amass illicit wealth.
The VACB’s FIR accuses Mr. Kumar of seeking sizeable backhanders from relatives of convicts for facilitating their parole. The bureau alleged that Mr. Kumar besides sought wealth to assistance “criminals” peculiar privileges successful prison, including the quality to web with their associates outside.
The VACB said Mr. Kumar’s patronage web covered the Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, and Viyyur Central prisons. Investigators said the bureau would analyse whether different situation section officials benefited from the racket.
They told Mr. Kumar besides threatened to acceptable harsh conditions for convicts, including denial of parole, if their relatives did not conscionable the network’s request for cash.
The VACB had registered the FIR and conducted a preliminary probe based connected respective complaints received astatine the agency’s office present from relatives of convicts and a fewer lawyers.
The VACB told the tribunal that Mr. Kumar besides moved immoderate of the amerciable proceeds from the corruption racket to his wife’s slope accounts via Google Pay. It was besides probing Mr. Kumar’s fiscal transactions with different persons, including those successful the latter’s department.
The authorities said Mr. Kumar volition stay extracurricular work until the VACB completed the probe.
