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Madurai prison fraud: DVAC raids 11 places across six districts
The New Indian Express Tirunelveli
|January 04, 2025
The DVAC sleuths conducted raids at 11 places across six districts, including Madurai and Chennai, in connection with a case booked against 11 persons over alleged prison fraud, on Friday.
Kannan and former administrative officer M Thiagarajan, on charges of misappropriating ₹1.63 crore between 2019 and 2021 while purchasing raw materials to manufacture stationery, and manipulating prison records pertaining to the supply of stationery articles to government departments.
The DVAC had registered a case against 11 persons, including the then superintendent of Madurai Central Prison M Urmila, former jailer S Vasantha
This story is from the January 04, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tirunelveli.
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