Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Oct 19: Suspicious over double claims for the vehicles hired by District Police for smooth conduct of the recently held Parliamentary Elections , Police Headquarters (PHQ) has been impelled to order a scrutiny.
However, one such incongruity, reportedly, surfaced in district Rajouri where multiple vehicles were used for single police officer to ferry him for smooth conduct of elections. Police sources said that discrepancy surfaced in accounts submitted by district Rajouri, where district police hired the vehicles for cops deployed for the elections duty, however, the armed police officers who were deployed for the duty in Rajouri arrived with the vehicles hired by the armed police.
The issue of double claim came to limelight when district Rajouri police and armed police deposited the bills for the vehicles they hired from the private contractors, reportedly hundreds in numbers, for withdrawal of the same. PHQ, later, entrusted the responsibility to the police team so constituted headed by the DIG CID Surinder Kumar Gupta as the amount went into lakhs of rupees. The auditing in this connection is in progress. A senior police officer in Jammu Kashmir Armed Police (JKAP) when contacted, divulged pleading anonymity that on the PHQ's direction armed police hired vehicles for their personnel deployed for election duty. Meanwhile sources said that before Parliamentary elections, PHQ asked DIGs of different ranges to constitute the committees for hiring of the vehicles for the purpose, but, before the committees were constituted , some district SPs informed PHQ that they had been hiring vehicles from the local private contractors, thus, leaving the committees in lurch. |
