A court here sent an officer of the Indian Audits and Accounts Service (IAAS) on a three-day transit remand to Tamil Nadu where an alleged bribery case has been filed against him and his relative by CBI.
As the arrests were made by the agency, its sleuths also claimed to have seized unaccounted cash totalling over Rs one crore.
The officer has been identified as A Paramasivan, an IAAS officer of 2005-batch.
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His relative, Sivaram Tilagar, a Medical Officer in Kanchipuram in Tamilnadu was arrested yesterday in Chennai while allegedly taking the bribe amount of Rs 5 lakh. He too was sent to judical custody till May 2 by a special court.
CBI arrested the duo after it received a complaint against them asking for a bribe in return for granting favours to a nursing college in Chennai.
"So far, searches have been conducted at seven places at Melamaniachi, Tirunelveli, Kancheepuram, Chennai, New Delhi and Noida. Cash of Rs 1,01,61,000 has been recovered. Twelve immovable property documents from the residence of Paramasivan and nine immovable property documents from the residence of Tilagar and certain documents have been recovered," a CBI spokesperson said.
Paramasivan was posted as a Director in the office of the Director General of Audit, Central Expenditure, in the national capital.
The agency had yesterday said that Paramasivan had demanded Rs 35 lakh as bribe for regularising the irregularities of a nursing college being run by the complainant in Chennai and directed the complainant to pay the first installment of Rs 5 lakh to his brother-in-law at a designated place in the Tamil Nadu capital.
