Supreme Court Setback For Tamil Nadu In Bribery Case Against Central Officer
NDTV
The ED had requested the Supreme Court to transfer the bribery case from the Tamil Nadu anti-corruption wing to the CBI.
The Tamil Nadu government suffered a massive setback in the Supreme Court on Thursday in a corruption case against an Enforcement Directorate officer. The court has restricted the state police from probing the Ankit Tiwari bribery case, the latest point of friction between Tamil Nadu and central governments, and directed them to produce before it the material collected in the case.
Mr Tiwari was arrested in December after he was caught accepting Rs 20 lakh as bribe - the first arrest of a central agency officer in Tamil Nadu. The state cops had also filed a case detailing his role in the alleged crime.
The ED had filed a petition in the Supreme Court to transfer the bribery case from the Tamil Nadu anti-corruption wing to the CBI, a central agency.
