Virudhunagar unit of Vigilance and Anti-corruption (DVAC) on the night of June 10 seized ₹4.35 lakh of unaccounted money from a Special Sub-Inspector of Police, attached to Civil Supplies - Criminal Investigation Department (Food Cell) of Virudhunagar district.
According to DVAC sources, acting on a tip off, a team led by Additional Superintendent of Police K. Ramachandran and Inspector of Police C. Salvan Thurai, intercepted a car in which SSI Murugaselvan (50) was spotted at Alagapuri checkpost at around 9 p.m.
The vigilance sleuths had received a complaint that Murugaselvan had been collecting monthly ‘mamool’ from rice mill owners and ration rice smugglers.