Date:20/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/20/stories/2008112053250300.htm

Kerala - Palakkad

Fly ash supply to MCL: Vigilance conducts raids

Staff Reporter

PALAKKAD: The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureaux of Palakkad and Thrissur districts conducted raids on the office and residence of Surya group of companies’ chairman V.M. Radhakrishnan and on the residence of Muraleedharan Nair, former General Manager of Malabar Cements Limited (MCL), here on Tuesday.

The Vigilance teams raided the company office at Kunnathurmedu and the residence of Mr. Radhakrishnan at Yakkara. The raid was conducted on the Chandranagar residence of Mr. Muraleedharan Nair.

Official sources said that in the day-long raids some important documents connected with the supply of fly ash by the private company to the Malabar Cements Limited were seized.

The raids were in connection with a Vigilance case pertaining to the contract Mr. Radhakrishnan’s company had entered into with the public sector MCL to supply fly ash to it in 2004.