In an unprecedented action, Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sleuths on Friday evening conducted searches at the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) Madurai office hours after arresting an officer of the agency in neighbouring Dingidul district on charges of demanding and accepting bribe from a government doctor, who is an accused in a disproportionate assets case.
The DVAC officers of Dindigul arrested Ankit Tiwari, an Enforcement Officer with the central agency, near the Kodaikanal Road Toll Collection Plaza on the Madurai-Dindigul four way lane in the early hours of Friday. The sleuths seized ₹20 lakh cash from his car, which he had allegedly received as bribe. Mr. Tiwari was then taken to the V&AC office in Dindigul for interrogation, police said.
According to sources, following a complaint received from Dr. Suresh Babu of Dindigul, the V&AC police had registered a case on Thursday. The complainant said he had worked worked as Deputy Superintendent in the Government Hospital in Dindigul. In 2018, a case of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income was booked against him.
