DVAC officials ransacked our office, stole sensitive documents: ED to Tamil Nadu DGP
Tamil Nadu DGP seeking registration of an FIR against the officials of the state Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, who recently arrested its Madurai-based investigator, for conducting an allegedly illegal search at its office and «stealing» sensitive documents. The federal probe agency has alleged that during the DVAC raids conducted at its Madurai sub-zonal office on December 1, the officials of the state agency «ransacked the entire office of the ED.»
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 Enforcement Directorate is also understood to have registered a money laundering case taking cognisance of this DVAC FIR against its officer to probe the charges against Tiwari and the linked allegations.
The station head of ED's Madurai office, an Assistant Director rank officer, wrote to the DGP on Saturday stating that the «alleged search conducted by DVAC is not only illegal but also mala fide.»
«We request you to register an FIR against the DVAC officials who have conducted the illegal search and against all persons who entered the office premises of the ED in an unauthorised manner and have stolen the case records of ED, taken copies, and committed other offences...,» the ED letter, accessed by PTI, said.
