DA case: Ex-registrar of Nurses Council under DVAC scanner

The accused official was identified as Dr G Josephine R Little Flower, who was the deputy registrar of TN Nurses and Midwives Council from June 2003 and later appointed as the registrar of the council on 15 December 2004.

In 2012, she was permitted to take up appointment as nursing advisor to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on deputation for a period of five years. She served in the post till March 25, 2017, after her service ceased from TN Nurses and Midwives Council as per the council’s proceedings on several allegations, the DVAC FIR said.

The accused official has no other source of income except her salary and other emoluments. However, she managed to purchase a luxury apartment worth nearly Rs 1 crore in Anna Nagar West in her then 18-year-old daughter’s name, a vacant plot in Thoraipakkam worth Rs 90 lakh in her father’s name, and a car. Besides these, she had fixed deposit in her name and in the names of her daughter and father, the FIR added.

The accused official had also managed to admit her daughter to MBBS course in a private college and she also completed her MS from another privateinstitute.

When they computed her income between August 1, 2009, to December 31, 2013, the DVAC team found that she accumulated disproportionate assets worth Rs 1.73 crore. Her father abetted her to acquire wealth disproportionate to her known source of income by lending his name to purchase properties, added the agency in the FIR. Her father died in December 2016.

Josephine has been booked under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act on Monday.