The order was issued by the Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance) S S Vassan while allowing the discharge petitions of former Chief Secretary S Padmakumar and former Additional Chief Secretary Scaria Mathew from the case relating to import of palmolein by the state government allegedly at inflated price from Malaysia in May 1991 and April 1992 causing a loss of Rs 2.33 crore to the state.
Both the Supreme Court and the high court had disallowed a plea of CPI-M veteran V S Achuthanandan to conduct a probe into the role of Chandy as an accused in the case, in which names of some politicians and bureaucrats have cropped up.
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