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| Social Justice office bearers seek CBI probe in alleged scam in CAPD | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Feb 28: Office bearers of Social Justice (NGO) including its president Jawaid Mughal, who claimed to have detected a multi-crore scam in the Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution (CAPD) department at Rajouri, have demanded a CBI inquiry in this matter as the concerned authorities have failed to take any action for their vested interests.
According to press release, Sheiraz Ahmad and Mohammad Mobin another office bearers and RTI activists said that under RTI act they had approached the CAPD officials to provided them the details of the scam investigated by the department, but after a lapse of more than 18 months no information was provided to them which is a gross violation of RTI, Act at Rajouri. It is pertinent to mention that after the scam was exposed when two employees of the department were apprehended by Varinder Gupta , the then Rajouri SHO while depositing about Rs 2 crores in the accounts of the department and AD CAPD in J&K Bank main branch near tehsil office.
On questioning of the employees ,identified as Som Dutt, accountant and Suresh Kumar weigh man, crime branch of J&K police had registered a case under sections 409/420/467/468/471/120-B RPC (FIR 11/2o12).The case was registered after the CAPD officials were found involved in misappropriation of government ration in nexus with local dealers.
The officials were found indulged in making fake carriage charges bills for distributing rations in far flung areas in the district. The ration shown was also sold in the black market and the amount in both the cases cross more than Rs 13 crores.Office bearers of the NGO including Shiraz Ahmed claim that they have exposed the scam and their application under RTI act , to get detailed information, has not been entertained deliberately by the AD, CAPD in order to save the accused involved in the scam.
"I have been continuously harassed by some of the involved dealers who had withdrawn crores of rupees on producing fictitious ration cards/ fictitious locations of the ration depots in far flung areas in nexus with CAPD employees. They are forcing us to withdraw RTI application" said Sheiraz Ahmed.
The scam involve withdrawal of ration as well as carriage charges on the name of fake ration dealers in fake locations in far flung areas where the carriage charges are higher than at other nearby places.
Under norms, the quota of ration is fixed as per the status of population of each dealer and ration is accordingly being supplied under the categories APL, BPL and AAY at different subsidized rates fixed by the government for each category. On perusal of the records of Tehsil Supply Office, Rajouri, it was found that not only the excess ration was issued to the private dealers, but double drawl of carriage charges have also been made for several months between January 2009 and March 2013.However, the excess quantity of ration has been shown issued to the private dealers, mostly under APL Category. The omissions and commissions on the part of CAPD officials and private dealers, prima facie, suggest the commission of offences, as they have connived with each other to misappropriate the government ration as well as carriage charges.The scam surfaced when two officials of the CAPD department, Som Dutt, accountant and Suresh Kumar, Weigh man, were apprehended by the Rajouri police on 11th May while depositing cash in J&K Bank.While the pay-in slip mentioned Rs 2 crore, the officials actually were carrying Rs 99, 97,500 while rest of the money was with another two employees who immediately left the bank after police raid .
Police seized the cash but let-off the two officials after brief questioning after the cash was deposited in the bank. Where the rest of the money had gone, nobody knows till date? Sheiraz Ahmed further alleged that after information of about 5000 such fake ration cards, which according to him were cancelled recently by the Assitant Director (AD) CAPD , an application under RTI was moved by him to get the details. On one or other pretext the officials denied the information and ultimately he approached AQ Mir, AD , CAPD and moved another application under reciept No.954827 dt 23/8/2012 but till date the information was not provided to Shieraz.He had also approached the Chief Information Commissioner along with all the required documents for non compliance and open violation of RTI act by the CAPD officials at Rajouri.Shieraz added that the state government, concerned agencies and some politicians defending the corrupt officials and that is why no action has been taken against the corrupt officials involved in this scam. |
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