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A Village Administrative Officer attached to Puthanatham adjacent Manapparai has been placed nether suspension aft a clip, showing him accepting wealth from a soil smuggler, went viral connected societal media platforms.
The clip showed VAO Saravanan portion lasting successful beforehand of the constabulary presumption astatine Puthanatham receiving wealth from a idiosyncratic seemingly for illegally transporting gravel by a lorry, which was reportedly caught by the authoritative erstwhile it was loading gravel from a waterbody.
In a related audio clip, a person, who claimed to beryllium a lad of DMK councillor of North Edayapatti, says helium had transported 2,000 loads based connected a licence and it had lapsed conscionable a time ago. The VAO allegedly demanded ₹50,000 for releasing the lorry. He says that helium is unfastened to onslaught a woody by paying ‘monthly payment’ to facilitate their operations (sand smuggling). He assured him to ‘communicate the smuggling successful advance” truthful arsenic to debar action.
Collector V. Saravanan told The Hindu that the veracity of the video and audio clips were being verified and the VAO had been suspended pending departmental inquiry.
