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| Involvement of PDD official Kathua in fake bills case awaits Vigilance action | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 21: It has been months since the scandal of fake bills case has surfaced in Power Development Department Kathua Division wherein Vigilance Organisation also took note against the alleged PDD official .
Sources said that after the case of withdrawal of payment by producing fake bills by a PDD official in PDD Kathua Division, the State Vigilance took note of the complaints but it has been more than eight months, no action has been taken against the culprit.
Pertinently, a officer in Power Development Department Kathua Division had allegedly produced two bills of purchase of Transformer Oil worth lakhs to the accounts section of the department for its clearance but the department withheld the payment suspecting scandal in purchase of oil.
The bills produced by the alleged official were fakes to withdraw payment of Rs 2.5 lakhs from the state exchequer. The alleged official is notorious for his misdeeds in the department who leave no chance to defy the orders of his superior blatantly.
"When he produced the bills for their clearance, the senior officers asked him that what need arises to purchase so much of oil in one go and where it was used but official failed to reply satisfactorily about the purchase of transformer oil due to which department withheld the payment," they informed. Besides, the official is already under scanner for alleged irregularities in distribution of electrical equipments, who initially refused to conduct physical verification of equipment which is process conducted annually but later on exerting pressure by the senior he somehow carried out verification in which it was found that most of the electrical equipments were distributed without payment
Despite Repeated attemted the concern officer.s could not be contacted of official comment. |
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