THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Biju Ramesh, bar association working president Biju Ramesh, will give statement against Excise Minister K Babu ,t the vigilance office in Ernakulam on Tuesday. He was directed to give statement on Monday but as he informed his inconvenience, the investigating official DySP N M Ramesh asked him to give statement on Tuesday.
The probe is following his statement before the magistrate that an amount of Rs 10 crore was offered to Minister Babu for reducing the bar license fee to 23 lakh from 30 lakh. Biju had revealed that Rs 50 lakh was given to Babu at the secretariat after a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Industries. Babu’s private secretary Suresh will also be called to take his statement.
No comments:
Post a Comment