The police teams probing the CSR funds scam, in which over 1,600 cases have been registered across Kerala, are learnt to be hastening the procedures to submit chargesheets in the cases. The police’s plan is to file chargesheets in cases registered over individual complaints first.
The investigators have been instructed by Additional Director General of Police H. Venkatesh, in charge of Crime Branch, to file chargesheets in the cases soon, a top police officer said.
T. Shyamlal, SP, Crime Branch, central unit, said the chargesheets in all likelihood would be submitted from October.
“Chargesheets in individual complaints, which make around 80% of the total complaints, will be submitted on a priority basis. In the remaining cases, registered over complaints filed by office-bearers of charitable societies, chargesheets will be submitted in the next phase. Complaints have been filed by charitable societies with hundreds of members and documents of each member need to be compiled to draft the chargesheets, the officer said.
The police are planning to invoke the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019 or BUDS Act, in the cases registered over the scam. “The accused did not have any licence to raise funds from the complainants,” an officer said.
