Shri. A. Arumugham, Fmr. Trustee & Advisor of Indian CST.
He is an alumini of St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore, having taken his B. Com degree in 1962.
Practice Details
He did his apprenticeship with a lead Chartered Accountants in South India at Bangalore.
After qualifying as Chartered Accountant in the year 1967, he worked in a senior position at Mysore Iron & Steel Ltd, Bhadravathi (now SAIL) for five years.
He worked as the Chief Security Officer of UPSRTC before coming to Karnataka on cadre transfer in April 1982.
He is also known for using technology to crack some of the most high-profile cases: the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the 1992 Harshad Mehta scam and the Abdul Karim Telgi fake stamp paper scam.
In 2010, he became Vigilance Commissioner at the Central Vigilance Commission.
He has been actively advocating mobile computing for filing complaints about corruption through Project Vigeye, launched by the Central Vigilance Commission with the objective of empowering citizens to report corruption in their neighborhood.
Vigeye provides a more user-friendly platform for interface between the CVC and the citizens who may have been victims at the hands of corrupt officials and who want to disclose information about such corrupt practices. Over 7,000 complaints had been received under Vigeye.
Awards & Certificates/Distinguished Positions
With Industrial back ground he founded in the year 1973, his firm ARU & DEV, Chartered Accountants.
The firm was well known for rendering advice in establishing industries, audit of public companies like BHEL, KPTCL, KSIIDC and large private companies.
He is on the Board of various companies. He is also the founder committee member and he is also passionately involved as Secretary & Treasurer of the "Jaipur foot" organisation of Bangalore known as "Angakarunya Kendra" which in the last 26 years has fitted free Jaipur foot for over 25000 people, a national service.
