S. Murugan, Joint Director of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC), who is facing allegations of sexual harassment, will soon be transferred to the department to which he was moved in May this year, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami said in the Assembly on Friday.
He was replying to DMK MLA K. Ponmudi who raised the issue of the officer still remaining in his earlier post despite transfer orders being issued to him. The Chief Minister said Mr. Murugan would soon be moved to his transferred post. He was moved to the Economic Offences Wing in May this year.
Mr. Ponmudi sought to know why the government had transferred 86 officers in just two days, before the new DGP took over. The Chief Minister said these transfers were routine and they had been planned earlier itself. The Chief Minister, replying to Congress floor leader K .R. Ramasamy, said police personnel cannot resort to firing whenever they want to and there are a set of procedures to be followed before they can open fire. “You are making it seem like the police under our government directly open fire without exercising the other options available before that. That is not the case,” the Chief Minister said.
Stalin, CM spar
DMK president M.K. Stalin and the Chief Minister sparred over the results of the by-polls.
During a short argument between Mr. Ponmudi and Mr. Palaniswami, the DMK president rose and asked if the 13 seats won by the DMK was bigger or the nine won by the AIADMK. “You had held 12 of the seats won by us now. It only goes to show our growth,” Mr. Stalin also said.
Responding, Mr. Palaniswami said they had won the by-polls by giving false promises to the people that cannot be fulfilled. “If the Parliamentary polls and the Assembly polls had been held separately, we would have won the Assembly polls,” the Chief Minister said.
