ADGP under suspension
The additional director general of police (transport vigilance) K. Thukkaiandi, was placed under suspension a day before his retirement on Friday for his alleged involvement in a landgrab case registered against his wife and daughter.
Thukkaiandi is the fourth senior IPS official to be placed under suspension in the last one year.
The ADGP has been suspended pending inquiry, said officials. The home department has also asked him not to leave Chennai without getting permission from the secretary of the home department.
Thukkaiandi had allegedly helped his wife and daughter in taking possession of a piece of land in Panaiyur, off East Coast Road, after they found that the owner of the land who used to stay in Mumbai had died.
The heirs of the owner, during a visit to Chennai, found that their land has been encroached and a house was built on it. They then lodged a complaint with the central crime branch of the Chennai city police.
“An FIR has been registered against the wife and daughter of Thukkaiandi. Only after a vigilance inquiry can we can find out if the ADGP was involved in the land grabbing and making of forged documents,” police sources said.
In the last one year, other than Thukkaiandi, one ADGP, M.S. Jaffer Sait, and two inspector generals of police, P. Sivanandi and Pramod Kumar, have been placed under suspension by the government. Sait was suspended in connection with the allotment of TNHB plots for his family members.
Sivanandi was placed under suspension pending inquiry, while Pramod Kumar was suspended after CBI arrested him for allegedly collecting hush money from those involved in the Tiruppur Paazee scam.
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