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| CBI probing phone bill fudging scam | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 5
A CBI team has reached Srinagar for a probe in the fudging monthly telephone bills which has resulted in a huge financial loss to the BSNL.The team was deputed to Kashmir on a tip off regarding tampering of the computer billing system which indicated that some BSNL officials were in league with some PCO owners.
The billing and the receipt of payment has shown vast variation which has forced the authorities to order a CBI probe.Preliminary investigations had revealed that so far a fraud to the tune of Rs.10 lakhs has been found. The CBI sleuths have kept between 30 and 40 PCO owners under scan and their bills were being verified.
Preliminary investigations had revealed that some BSNL officials had managed to reduce phone bills by 90 to 120 per cent.In one case the bill amount
was Rs.10,000 and as a result of the nexus between some BSNL officials and the PCO owners only Rs.1,000 had been deposited in the telephone department.
The CBI team has been asked to identify those BSNL officials and the PCO owners who had managed to fudge the password which is used in issuing the bills and in the receipt of payment. So far 30 to 40 cases of bill fudging have been identified and the CBI sleuths have apprehensions that the fudging may not be limited to the Srinagar city but to the other town of the valley and instructions have been issued to the CBI team to cover other areas too in the probe so that the kingpins were nabbed. |
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