Bengaluru: Days after Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials arrested former Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Tribal Welfare B. Nagendra, a Congress MLA from Ballari Rural Constituency, in connection with a scam involving the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, the ED has taken Nagendra’s wife, Manjula, into custody.
Funds amounting to Rs. 88 crore were embezzled in the Valmiki Corporation during Nagendra’s tenure and the ED is currently investigating the case. ED officials visited Manjula at her residence in Dollars Colony this morning and took her to their office in Shantinagar.
