Cong seeks court-monitored probe into IT firm owned by Veena
A DAY after the Bengaluru Registrar of Companies (ROC) found a grave violation of rules by the Chief Minister's daughter, Veena Vijayan’s Bengaluru-based IT firm Exalogic Solution, the Congress party on Thursday demanded a court-monitored probe into it, report online news sites quoting IANS.
Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan said, "The findings of the ROC based on a preliminary probe in a complaint against the dealings of Veena’s IT firm, the ideal thing would be to have a court-monitored probe, but what has been announced now is a probe by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
“The ED deals with cases relating to public money laundering and the CBI deals with cases about corruption. But what is now announced is a probe by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, which we do not agree to.
“Why we do not agree to it is because what we have been seeing in Kerala is there is a secret deal between the Sangh Parivar forces and Vijayan. Cases about both these parties are being settled and with the Lok Sabha polls now around the corner, the settlement deals will intensify and hence we demand the probe against Veena’s IT firm should be under the judiciary,” added Satheesan.
For the past few months, the issue has been raging both inside and outside the Assembly after a media report, quoting a report from the Income Tax Settlement Board claimed that Veena’s firm had received Rs 1.72 crore from CMRL -- a mining company, for no services rendered.
Following this, based on a complaint, the probe started and the ROC has now also found out that the application given by Veena to freeze the company, contained incorrect details.
When the allegation against this surfaced first, the Congress was up in arms and the CPI(M) Kerala unit and Vijayan himself led the defence for Veena stating that there was nothing irregular in the dealings between these two firms and gave a clean chit to Veena.
On Thursday, CPI(M) state secretary M.V. Govindan in a column in the party organ ‘Deshabhimani’ stated that the sudden influx of cases against CPI(M) leaders and their families by using agencies by the Centre is nothing but playing politics, and there is nothing untoward in the dealings of the IT firm.
This case is also being heard in the Kerala High Court after a complaint was filed against the irregular dealings of Veena’s IT firm. The Central government has informed the Kerala High Court that it has issued an order under the Companies Act for initiating an investigation into Veena’s firm and posted the case for Wednesday.
