JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records of the impugned order passed by the first respondent in R.No.3 of 2022 dated 02.03.2022 and quash the same and consequently direct the first respondent to take the complaint on record and conduct a detailed enquiry by issuing notice to all respondents by following the due process of law laid under the Tamil Nadu Lokayukta Act 2018 in letter and spirit.)

1. The petitioner herein challenges the order of the Lokayukta, the first respondent herein, dated 02.03.2022, passed in R.No.3 of 2022, by which it refuses to take cognizance of the complaint which the petitioner had preferred against respondents 2 to 6.

2. The case of the petitioner is that:

(a) The petitioner had preferred a complaint to the Lokayukta, alleging corruption, acts of malfeasance and impropriety committed by respondents 2 to 6 vis-a-vis the gift hampers distributed to the under privileged citizens throughout the State, during Pongal festival in January, 2022.