Thiruvananthapuram
Speculation was rife in the media on Friday evening that the State government had transferred Director of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) M. R. Ajith Kumar. However, the administration is yet to confirm the report officially.
The agency has been under an unflattering light after plainclothes Vigilance enforcers hustled away P. Sarith, an accused in the UAE gold smuggling case, to a VACB facility. The Palakkad police were left in the dark about the Vigilance move. They had launched a missing person search after Sarith's co-accused Swapna Suresh reported his "kidnapping". Later, the VACB issued an official statement that Sarith had accompanied the officers on his own for questioning in connection with the LIFE Mission graft case.
