The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), in its fIr registered on Thursday against AV Venkatachalam, chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), said he “colluded with other officials in committing criminal misconduct and criminal misappropriation”.
Several players in the electroplating industry who spoke to TNIE argued the phrase “other officials” should have been written as “most officials”. All of them were pointing at the largescale prevalence of alleged corruption in the board and stressed that Venkatachalam’s case is just a speck of sand.
In the last quarter of 2020 alone, the DVAC booked at least two TNPCB officials and seized ₹3.58 crore from one of the official’s house in Vellore. An owner of a red-category industry in Chennai, who had to pay bribes on many occasions in the past, said money is involved at every stage where the board issues permissions.
This story is from the September 25, 2021 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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