Define the following terms: Central Vigilance Commission.

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is the body constituted by the Government in the year 1964 on the proposal of the Santharam Committee on the Prevention of Corruption. The body was established with an intention to check corruption in the Government departments. The Commission is an independent statutory body exempted from the authority of the executive. The CVC attained statutory recognition by an ordinance of 1998 and in September 12, 2003 the ordinance was replaced by The Central Vigilance Commission Act enacted by the Legislative Department under the Ministry of Law and Justice. The main purpose of the Act was to establish the Central Vigilance Commission to investigate the offences punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 by the public servants working under the Central Government, Corporations constituted under the Act of Parliament, Government companies, and local bodies owned and managed by the Centre.