An Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe has revealed that the manufacturer of Coldrif syrup, linked to the deaths of at least 20 children in Madhya Pradesh, used industrial-grade raw materials without quality checks. The investigation also found that Tamil Nadu Drugs Control Department officials were in frequent contact with the company but failed to conduct mandated inspections.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided premises linked to Sresan Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Coldrif cough syrup linked to the deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and top officials of the Tamil Nadu FDA as part of a money laundering investigation.
Premises of former state minister and Dravida Munettra Kazhagam leader Parithi Ilamvazhuthi were on Thursday raided by Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officials in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The bench said when the people were running, the police chased them and opened fire.
The DVAC searches were undertaken after the department arrested the ED's Madurai stationed enforcement officer Ankit Tiwari for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a doctor.
The complainant, Dr T Suresh Babu, told his car driver to put the Rs 20 lakh cash, into the ED officer's car trunk.
The Madras high court has expressed displeasure over the manner in which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted the probe into the 2018 Tuticorin police firing against anti-Sterlite protestors in which 13 persons were killed.
An Enforcement Directorate officer was arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a a government employee, the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), said on Friday.
The Madras high court on Thursday ordered issuing notice to deposed All Indi Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Paneerselvam and his relatives on a criminal revision case initiated on its own, relating to their discharge in a disproportionate wealth case by a trial court in 2012.
'This government is not in the hands of M K Stalin but in the hands of the bureaucracy -- the IAS and IPS.'
A case of disproportionate assets was filed against a former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA by the Vigilance Directorate and simultaneous searches were held in multiple locations on Friday by the anti-corruption sleuths.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a Madras high court order of a CBI probe into allegations of corruption against then chief minister and AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami in awarding contracts in the state highways department.
A day after Tamil Nadu law minister S Regupathy wrote to Ravi requesting him that he should 'not delay any further' his sanction to prosecute former AIADMK ministers and clear the 13 Bills pending with him for his assent, the Governor's office reacted.
The TN law minister said similarly, the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption sought sanction to prosecute KC Veeramani and MR Vijayabaskar, also former ministers in the AIADMK government.
CM Stalin has a procedural problem. Nominating new ministers would entail his having to seek formal permission from governor R N Ravi. Stalin does not want to interact with the person of this governor, as far as possible, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The department of vigilance and anti-corruption in Tamil Nadu on Thursday carried out searches at over 20 premises and locations related to former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister K C Veeramani, including at his native Jolarpettai in Thirupatthur district in connection with a disproportionate assets case, the police said.
The BJP and the AIADMK are unable to sort out ideological differences, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Justice G Jayachandran disposed of the petitions filed by Bharathi and another one by the non-governmental organisation 'Arappor Iyakkam' represented by Jairam Venkatesh seeking a direction to the DVAC to probe the complaint. "...The inquiry has to be completed as expeditiously as possible...," the judge said.
Ramachandran is DMK's strongman in Virudhunagar district of South Tamil Nadu.
Vigilance officials on Friday conducted raids at premises belonging to former Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam minister K R Periyakaruppan across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption are going in Chennai and Sivaganga districts, DVAC sources said. Periyakaruppan is a former Hindu religious and charitable endowments minister.
Vigilance officials on Wednesday conducted raids in the premises of former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister NKKP Raja across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam veteran's criticism of Haasan comes in the backdrop of the actor invoking the legacy of the ruling party's founder and former chief minister, the late M G Ramachandran, and the MNM chief lashing out at government over corruption.
The court order is seen as a major embarrassment for the AIADMK as Palaniswami will be the first chief minister in the state to face a CBI probe over corruption charges.
The Tamil Nadu Vigilance Department on Thursday raided the residence of former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister Duraimurugan in Chennai on charges of possessing disproportionate assets.
The raids were in progress at the premises of former Assembly Secretary M Selvaraj, then Committee Officer P S K Singaravelu, Section Officer, S Balakrishnan, and then Joint Secretary K Indira, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption sources said.
Vigilance officials on Wednesday conducted raids at premises belonging to former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister Thangam Thennarasu and his relatives across Tamil Nadu in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
Vigilance officials on Thursday conducted raids at 16 premises belonging to former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister Veerapandi S Arumugam and his relatives in Chennai and Salem in connection with a disproportionate assets case
The DVAC team, comprised members from Chennai and Coimbatore. However, the sources refused to divulge details of the raids.
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Veerasamy was the electricity minister in the previous DMK government.
The 'Raj Bhavan/Nakkeeran Gopal case', in which editor S Gopal was arrested in the morning and set free by the court in the afternoon, is not the first one where the Tamil Nadu's once-reputed police force is seen as faltering in the eye of the law, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
A vigilance department insider-turned-online journalist, busy taking on the establishment, comes to fore with the 2G tapes
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