The Hindu: Bengaluru: Thursday,
September 08, 2016.
The
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has written to the government seeking permission
to be exempted from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The request
was made a few months ago and was a step toeing the Central Bureau of
Investigation and the State Criminal Investigation Department, which are out of
the purview of the RTI Act.
K.V.
Gagandeep, Additional Director-General of Police, ACB, said it was very
unlikely for the State government to give the green signal for their request.
Apart from
this request, another one pending government sanction is the permission to
conduct investigation into cases against government officials in which
preliminary investigation has been completed. Mr. Gagandeep was addressing
mediapersons here on Wednesday to announce searches in the offices and homes of
three government officials.
The ACB
sleuths searched the house of Srinivasa Reddy, Deputy Director, Commerce and
Industries, Chintamani, Chickballapur district, and his office in Kolar; house
of Sampath Krishna, Deputy Director, Mines and Geology Department, at R.T.
Nagar here and his office in V.V. Towers; and house of G.T. Srinivas,
second-grade clerk, Chickballapur Taluk Office.
“We seized
documents, and investigation is on,” said M.A. Saleem, Inspector-General of
Police, ACB.
About the
luxury watch case involving the Chief Minister, he said they were awaiting
information from the Customs and the Enforcement Directorate.
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