ED flags recruitment in exchange for bribes in Tamil Nadu dept, govt refutes all charges

ED, in a letter dated October 27 to the Tamil Nadu police, alleged that bribes of ₹25-35 lakh per post were exchanged for 2,538 posts in the MAWS department. The agency said that while investigating a bank fraud in April, they found evidence of corruption in the hiring of staff in MAWS in 2024-25 and 2025-26 in some of the seized devices