A special court has directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to conduct an inquiry against three former Principal Secretaries of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department and three others to ascertain the allegations that they had caused a loss of ₹269 crore to the exchequer by misappropriating public funds during 2009-15.
The inquiry has been ordered against former Principal Secretaries, retired IAS officers Amita Prasad and T.M. Vijaya Bhaskar (also a former Chief Secretary), serving IAS officer E.V. Ramana Reddy, a retired IAS officer and the then Additional Secretary of RDPR Department Bore Gowda, the then Deputy Secretary Ramakrishna, and Ceelam Giri, the then Assistant General Manager (AGM) of Syndicate Bank (now Canara Bank).
The 23 Additional City Civil and Sessions Court (special court for cases under Prevention of Corruption Act), Bengaluru, passed the order on a private complaint filed by 55-year-old S. Narayanaswamy, a social worker from Kolar district.
