Thread by @barandbench

#MadrasHighCourt seeks response on the anti-corruption set up in the State, the degree of independence afforded to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) and the number of corruption cases attended to in the last 3 financial years.

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During the hearing today, Court also posed queries on how secure the DVAC is and the extent to which its own officers have indulged in #corruption.

“…we want to know how secure is your Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption", CJ Sanjib Banerjee orally observed

"We have no doubt you have a very attractive website, 20,000 pages of nothing written, but we want to get to the meat of the matter… Or are we in such a fool's paradise that we have to believe that there is no corruption over there?“ CJ Banerjee remarked.

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“We want to see if we can put a mechanism in place because corruption is so cancerous... Corruption will ultimately kill us. It is because of corruption you have land grabbing, it is because of corruption, all these water bodies have evaporated, “ the CJ added.

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Reference was also made to reports of cash being seized around or after the elections.

CJ Banerjee orally observed, "They (cash) couldn’t have just sprouted from thin air.. we have also had no reports of asteroids landing recently with money."

Matter posted for after three weeks. The main plea, filed last year, relates to the seizure of cash from a Sub-Registrar's office in Villivakkam in 2018.