Govt employee tries to bribe pleader, HC orders inquiry

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Madurai: The Madras high court has ordered a DVAC inquiry after it was informed that a government employee attempted to bribe an additional government pleader to act in his favour in a case.

The court was hearing the petition filed by S Kumaravel, who is working as an assistant in the panchayat union office at Alanganallur in Madurai. He had filed a petition before the HC Madurai bench in 2021, seeking a direction to reduce the punishment of stopping increment, which was im- posed by the collector in 2013. When the petition was taken up for hearing recently, the additional government pleader A Kannan informed the court that the petitioner who posed as an officer had approached his juniors and offered to pay money if the government pleader acted in his favour in this case.

Justice B Pugalendhi referred the matter to the DVAC. The judge directed the officials of the Madurai district DVAC to file a report before the court on January19.

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