A Particular Process Pressure of the Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi has registered an Enforcement Case Data Report case in opposition to the central company’s personal Enforcement Officer in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, reported The Hindu.
Such a report is usually precedes motion below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002.
The officer, Ankit Tiwari, was arrested by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on December 1 for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a authorities physician in Dindigul metropolis earlier this month.
The complainant within the case is a authorities physician, Dr Suresh Babu, who had been named in a disproportionate belongings case registered in 2018. Though the proceedings of the case had accomplished and Babu confronted departmental motion, he was summoned by the central company’s Madurai workplace a number of months in the past.
On Wednesday, the Madras Excessive Court docket denied bail to Tiwari within the case. The Tamil Nadu Police had earlier booked the assistant director of enforcement, Sub-Zonal Workplace, Madurai, and 14 different officers for allegedly stopping the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption from conducting a raid on Tiwari’s workplace on December 1.
Tiwari had allegedly threatened Babu with arrest if he didn’t pay a bribe of Rs 3 crore. Subsequently, Babu reportedly negotiated the take care of Tiwari to carry down the quantity to Rs 51 lakh. On November 1, Babu reportedly paid over Rs 20 lakh in money to Tiwari.
The physician lodged a grievance with the Tamil Nadu Police after Tiwari demanded the remainder of the fee. Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officers then reportedly directed Babu handy over Rs 20 lakh money to Tiwari on December 1. After Tiwari collected the money, the Tamil Nadu Police staff intercepted his car after chasing it on the Dindigul-Madurai freeway for about 20 kms and arrested him.