AIADMK Rajya Sabha member I.S. Inbadurai on Thursday (February 26, 2026) filed a contempt of court petition against the Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (V&AC) A.T. Durai Kumar (in-charge) for not having filed an FIR in connection with the alleged cash-for-jobs scam in Minister K.N. Nehru’s Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department.
Earlier in the day, the MP’s counsel made an oral mention before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan that the court, on February 20, 2026, ordered the registration of the FIR forthwith but the DVAC had not done so even after six days. The Chief Justice said the matter would be heard if an appropriate petition gets filed in the court.
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Subsequently, the MP filed a contempt petition against the DVAC Director (in-charge) accusing him of having wilfully disobeyed the court orders. In an affidavit filed in support of his contempt plea, Mr. Inbadurai said that the scam was of very serious nature, in which bribe amounts ranging from ₹25 lakh to ₹35 lakh had been obtained from candidates to fill up 2,538 posts of Assistant Engineers, Junior Engineers, and so on.
