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A sub-registrar and his adjutant were caught red-handed by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption sleuths present connected Thursday.
It is said that the Vigilance officials caught the sub-registrar, portion helium was allegedly receiving a sum of ₹3 lakh from the complainant.
The complainant, a practising doc successful Chennai, owned a spot successful Ramanathapuram district. According to him, helium had planned to registry 1.98 acres of onshore successful his mother’s name. He had gone to the Sub-Registrar’s bureau successful Vellapattinam and wanted to registry the spot situated successful Kuyavankudi village.
However, it is alleged successful the ailment that the Sub-Registrar, who was identified arsenic Ramanathan, had demanded ₹50 lakh arsenic bribe for registering the supra document.
Shocked implicit the kickback demand, the doc had refused, but yet paid ₹20 lakh.
He paid ₹3 lakh to the sub-registrar’s slope relationship and connected directions of the SR, helium had paid ₹17 lakh to a man, whose sanction was fixed arsenic Ayub Khan.
However, connected May 18, 2026, erstwhile helium met the Sub-Registrar again, helium was asked to wage different ₹25 lakh to registry the document. The Sub-Registrar aboriginal reduced the magnitude to ₹15 lakh, asking him to wage ₹3 lakh currency to Ayub Khan and ₹12 lakh to a circumstantial slope account.
The complainant, unwilling to wage the bribe, filed a ailment with the Ramanathapuram Anti-Corruption and Vigilance Department police. The constabulary trapped the Sub-Registrar, Ramanathan, 59, and his adjutant Ayub Khan, 53, and caught them red-handed connected May 21, 2026, portion taking ₹3 lakh.
Further probe was on.
A elder serviceman successful the Directorate, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption said that for complaints related to bribery and corruption, nationalist tin interaction the DSP astatine 9498215697; 9498652169 Inspectors astatine 9498188390 and 9600082798. The serviceman said that the ailment would beryllium acted upon and the petition would beryllium fulfilled legally. Without hesitation, the nationalist tin divulge and the accusation would beryllium confidential, helium added.
