Sunday, December 31, 2017

Vigilance sleuths seize ₹10.7L, nab 30

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Salem: A team of officials from the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) and the Salem district inspection cell (SDIC) seized ₹10.75 lakh during a raid at the office of a government official at the Salem collectorate on Saturday. The team also arrested more than 30 officials including the assistant director, town panchayat, S Kannan.

Police said Kannan, who was the assistant director, town panchayat, for both Salem and Namakkal districts, demanded that all the 52 executive officers (EO) of the town panchayats in the two districts pay ₹20,000 each as a ‘New Year gift’.

DVAC and SDIC officials got a tip and monitored the Salem collectorate from Saturday morning. They entered the office at 6pm and arrested all the 14 employees working there. “We arrested 15 EOs who were waiting in the office with the money,” the official said, adding all of them will be lodged at the Salem central prison on Sunday morning.

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