The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Kochi, provisionally hooked up movable and immovable properties price ₹5.24 crore as proceeds of crime in the case of over-excavation and illegal excavation in Telecom City Project of Kerala Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO).
FIR by VACB
The company initiated investigation primarily based on a First Information Report registered by Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, Special Investigation Unit-II, Thiruvananthapuram.
Investigations revealed that Som Projects Pvt. Ltd. was awarded the land growth undertaking of Telecom City at Menamkulam by Kerala SIDCO and the corporate subcontracted the undertaking illegally to Mohammed Sadique Hussain of KGN Civil Construction and Noohu Khan of Veeyem
Over-excavation
The sub-contractors over-excavated 20,364.7 cubic metre sand from the allotted space and illegally excavated 19,181 cubic metre sand from the world close to Parvathy Puthanar, which was not allotted for sand excavation, and precipitated loss to the tune of ₹3.46 crore to SIDCO, the company stated in a communication.
Saji Basheer, the Managing Director, and S. Ajith Kumar, AGM of SIDCO, obtained illegal gratification to the tune of ₹1.29 crore and ₹6 lakh respectively from the sub-contractors of the undertaking for facilitating the illegal excavation, stated the communication.
