Thiruvananthapuram: A vigilance court had denied clean chit to the Chief Minister of Kerala Oomen Chandy and Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala in Titanium corruption case. Court has rejected an investigation report giving a clean chit to Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala in the eight year-old Titanium corruption case.
The Vigilance Court had ordered the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) to register a case against CM and 12 other accused. These also include PWD Minister Ibrahim Kunj and Ex-Industries Secretary T Balakrishnan.
The case is related to corruption to the tune of Rs.100 crore in setting up the waste treatment plant at the state-run Travancore Titanium Products (TTP) Ltd in the state capital. The charge against Chandy is that he went out of his way to implement the Rs.256 crore project.
Notify that Chandy had been accused for favouring the company that implemented the project even before the Cabinet cleared the project. The VACB that conducted the probe on the complaint of trade union leader Manakkad Jayan had found mismanagement in the project but no corruption.
The court, however, rejected the report and asked the investigating agency to conduct a further inquiry and submit a report within the next four months.
The opposition had demanded for the resignation of CM Chandy after they raised the issue in the Assembly. Opposition had alleged that Chandy had shown undue haste in awarding the project to Mecon Ltd, a union government undertaking, before the assembly polls in 2006.
Bureau Report
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