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| Employees dupe SICOP of Rs 20 lakh | | Vigilance registers case | |
SRINAGAR:
State Vigilance Organisation has registered a case against Mohd Abbas, accountant in SICOP, Anantnag and others for misappropriation of Rs.20 lakh received on account of service charges from BDOs in Anantnag district against supplies made through the Corporation.
In the course of investigation of Case FIR No.1/2007 P/S VOK relating to misappropriation of Govt money by the officials of SICOP and Rural Development Department Anantnag, it surfaced that employees of SICOP Anantnag and proprietor of M/s Ishfaq Steel Works Anantnag entered into a criminal conspiracy and duped SICOP by misappropriating the commission amount of over Rs.20 lacs on account of supply of material, its fixing and other works worth Rs.3.23 crores carried out during the period 2002-2005. The firm in connivance with the officials of SICOP and Rural Development Department also supplied substandard, below specification and material less in quantity thereby causing further loss to the exchequer. The supplies, their fixing and other works were assigned by the Rural Development Department to the said firm through SICOP.
In order to execute the criminal conspiracy to defraud the state exchequer, a fictitious and unauthorized bank account was opened in June 2002 in the Urban Cooperative Bank, Anantnag by said Mohd Abbas posing impersonating as Marketing Development Manager SICOP, Anantnag. The amount of Rs.3.23 crores in the form of bank drafts dispatched by various Block Development Officers in Anantnag district against supply of material, their fixing and other works executed by the SSI unit were deposited in this non official fictitious account and further transferred to the executing firm ‘Ishfaq Steel Works’, Anantnag thereby dishonestly depriving SICOP of the commission amount of over Rs.20 lakh and bestowing illegal pecuniary benefit to the concerned employees of SICOP and the firm.
This apart, as part of the conspiracy the firm ‘Ishfaq Steel Works’ had supplied substandard, below specification and material less in quantity and in connivance with concerned Govt. employees belonging to Rural Development Department and SICOP got entire payment released thereby further causing loss to the exchequer and corresponding wrongful gain to the concerned Govt. officials and the firm.
Case FIR No. 48/2007 U/S 5(2) P.C Act 2006 r/w 120-B, 409-RPC was registered in Police Station Vigilance Organisation Kashmir and investigation taken up.
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