Govt report sought on steps to end graft at Regn dept offices

The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee  and  Justice  Senthilkumar  Ramamoorthy,  passing  orders  on  a  PIL  pending  since  last  year complaining about lack of action against the said officer despite a pending FIR, said: “The petitioner attempts to emphasise corruption in registration  offices.  According  to  the  petitioner,  an  excess of Rs 70,000 was seized from the sub-registrar  concerned  and  no  disciplinary  action  has  been  taken,  raising  suspicion  that  the  official’s  pull must be long enough to reach high offices.

” Following this, the bench directed the State to file a report indicating what measures have been taken  generally  in  the  registration  department  as a whole and the particular office of the sub-registrar to weed out corruption.Appearing  for  Karuppu  Ezhuthu  Iyakkam,  which had moved the plea, advocate P Vijendran had  submitted  that  K  Gopalakrishnan  of  Villivakkam sub-registrar office was held with unaccounted money of Rs 70,600 in 2018 by the DVAC.

Following this, he was sought to be posted in an insignificant post in a remote area and was accordingly  transferred  as  District  Registrar  (Audit),  Tuticorin  on  March  7,  2019.  But  in  a  partial  modification  of  the  GO  on  July  5,  2019,  he  was  posted  as  District  Registrar  (Administration), Chengalpattu.