ED arrests Kerala CM's former aide Sivasankar

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday claimed that it had to arrest Kerala chief minister’s former principal secretary M Sivasankar as he refused to cooperate and was evasive in his replies when the agency officials confronted him with evidences of him allegedly receiving bribes in the CM’s pet Life Mission project. The agency has said that it has been probing the Unitac Builders and Developers Pvt Ltd and Sane Ventures LLP under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for “suspected pecuniary advantage obtained by some persons from the Life Mission project and illegal gratifications received by various persons including some public servants”.