Key Points
The Congress party in Kerala has demanded a judicial probe into allegations that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter was involved in suspicious financial transactions amounting to Rs 1.7 crore..
It has been alleged that Vijayan's daughter, T Veena, was paid for three years by a Kochi-based private company even though she did not offer any services to the company in question..
The allegations surfaced following an Income Tax Department investigation into financial transactions between T Veena and Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL)...
The order mentioned that the CMs daughter T Veena, who is married to State Public Works Department Minister PA Mohammed Riyas, received Rs 1.72 crore from a private company named Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) in monthly instalments over a three-year period...
As per the board's reported probe, Veena's company, Exalogic Solutions, entered into a contract with CMRL for IT, marketing consultancy, and software services in 2017..
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