The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has booked a First Information Report against N. Venugopal, a prominent Congress leader and former chairman of the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA), and others in a corruption case related to the now-defunct laser show at Rajendra Maidan.
Former GCDA secretary R. Lalu, former Senior Town Planner of the Authority, Gopalakrishna Pillai, former Assistant Engineer Dileep Gopalakrishnan, former executive engineers Jebi John and Mathew Joy, former Superintending Engineer C. J. Jacob, and Sunitha Maheshkumar, the proprietor and Managing Director of Laser Tech Entertainments Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, the firm which had set up the laser show unit and its director Maheshkumar are the other accused.
It was on a complaint from K.T. Cheshire, a public interest litigant, that the agency began the probe into the controversial project.
