Chennai, June 9 -- The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday ordered a Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) probe intothe sensational theft of hard disks containing key data, from the TN Electricity Board headquarters.
Two people, including a computer shop owner in Bengaluru, were arrested by the Special teams of Greater Chennai City Police, which had registered a case based on an official complaint from the EB department officials.
Though the theft had reportedly taken place on May 16 and 17, a few days after a new government assumed office and after the maiden visit of Electricity Minister C T Nirmal Kumar to the EB headquarters soon after taking charge, it came to light in the last week of May. The EB after initating a de...