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Rs 2 crore for Rs 17 crore: Kerala hands a 2006 bribe charge against the CEC to Vigilance
Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala has asked the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau to examine a fresh complaint against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, who was Kerala's PWD secretary in 2006. A former Kollam contractor alleges a Rs 2 crore demand to release Rs 17 crore in approved bills, and links it to a Malaysian engineer's suicide. The claims are unproven and Kumar has not responded.
Relief for Pinarayi and family as high court freezes the vigilance FIR in CMRL case
A Kerala High Court division bench on Monday stayed the single judge's order directing an FIR against former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena T and son-in-law P A Mohamed Riyas, and put the VACB's FIRs and investigation on hold. The Enforcement Directorate's separate money-laundering probe is untouched.