‘He had no role’: Kerala Vigilance Bureau drops 2018 case against CM Satheesan

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Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said the VACB has wound up its probe as there is no evidence against Satheesan. The VACB probe started in 2023, while Satheesan was serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly. What is the Punarjani project? Following the 2018 Kerala floods, Satheesan had conceived a project called Punarjani, aimed at rehabilitating victims in his constituency Paravur. It was only in 2023 that the government ordered the VACB probe into Satheesan based on the complaint from Panikulangara.