Rs 69 lakh seized from special tahsildar’s office

The DVAC officials, who arrived at the special tahsildar’s office late on Friday evening, continued their operations until the early hours of Saturday, official sources said. 

As the office functions from private premises on the Potti-Naidu Street, an adjacent building was also inspected by the officials. Investigations were still under way with special tahsildar Arputham and department staff. The DVAC operation follows a series of complaints regarding alleged irregularities in disbursing salaries to wardens of Adi Dravida welfare hostels in the area and in handing over Adi Dravida scholarship amount to students. 

The special tahsildar controls 18 Adi Dravida welfare schools and a similar number of hostels.