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Only Prime Minister’s Office can grant sanction to prosecute IAS officers, Centre tells Madras High Court
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The central government has informed the Madras High Court that only the Prime Minister's Office holds the authority to grant prosecution sanctions for IAS officers. Consequently, the court granted a two-month extension to secure the necessary approvals in a multi-crore tender irregularities case involving former minister S.P. Velumani.
WHY IT MATTERS
This clarification establishes the jurisdictional boundaries for prosecuting senior bureaucrats in high-profile corruption cases.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh records the submission and grants two months’ time to obtain sanction against IAS officers K.S. Kandasamy and K. Vijaya Karthikeyan in the ₹98.25-crore corporation tender irregularities case against former AIADMK Minister S.P. Velumani
This story was originally reported by The Hindu — National. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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