Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 10:34am on 04 Oct 2026,Sunday India
The Kerala Home Department has ordered the reopening of a Vigilance probe into alleged corruption in a 2006 road project, when Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was the state's Public Works Department secretary. Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala ordered the reinvestigation. The case began after Malaysian engineer Lee See Been, chief project manager of the World Bank-funded Kerala State Transport Project, died by suicide. His purported note allegedly named Kumar, accusing him of seeking a bribe to clear payments to PATI-BEL, an Indo-Malaysian venture. The earlier Vigilance inquiry was closed without a conclusion. The move revives a 20-year-old allegation against the current CEC.
