Kochi:
The Centre on Monday advised the Kerala Excessive Courtroom that it has issued an order underneath the Firms Act for an investigation into the alleged irregularities by the software program agency of Veena T, the daughter of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Orders have been issued underneath Part 210 (investigation into affairs of firm) of the Firms Act and the identical will likely be produced on document by the following date of listening to, it mentioned.
Noting the submission, Justice Devan Ramachandran directed the Centre to file on document the order issued by it earlier than January 19 and listed the matter for listening to on January 24.
The courtroom mentioned that by then the respondents, together with the Chief Minister, his daughter, her agency, Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) and Kerala State Industrial Growth Company Ltd, had been at liberty to reply to the Centre’s order.
The courtroom was listening to a plea by Shone George, a lawyer and son of veteran politician P C George, in search of an investigation into Veena T’s firm underneath the Firms Act and motion in opposition to it by the Severe Fraud Investigation Workplace (SFIO).
The petitioner advised the courtroom that solely motion underneath the Firms Act had been initiated and insisted that this was a matter the place the SFIO additionally had a job.
In view of the petitioner’s rivalry, the courtroom directed the Centre’s lawyer to ”get hold of particular directions, if any additional motion by the SFIO has been ordered or discovered warranted by the following posting date”.
An argument erupted in Kerala after a Malayalam each day reported final yr that CMRL had paid a complete of Rs 1.72 crore to the Chief Minister’s daughter between 2017 and 2020. The report cited the ruling of an interim board for settlement and mentioned that CMRL beforehand had an settlement with Veena’s IT agency for consultancy and software program help companies.
It additionally alleged that though no service was rendered by her agency, the quantity was paid on a month-to-month foundation ”on account of her relationship with a distinguished individual”.
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