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| 19 Months on, CB fails to conclude probe into multi-crore ration scam | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
ANANTNAG, May 3: The Crime Branch of Jammu Kashmir Police has failed to complete the probe into multi-crore ration scam that surfaced in South Kashmir's Pulwama district nineteen month ago.
The multi-crore ration scam was detected by Crime Branch after conducting raids at various outlets and go-downs in the month of September in year 2016 and accordingly an FIR 51/2016 was registered.
Earlier in the month of August 2016, Early Times reported misappropriation of ration to be distributed among people under Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Food Entitlement Scheme (MMSFES) in various areas of South Kashmir.
However the Crime Branch, which promised time bound investigation into the case, has failed to complete the probe into the scam despite the passage of over nineteen months.
Sources privy to the case proceedings revealed that probe into the multi-crore ration scam was slowed down 'deliberately'. "There is no progress into the case. In 2017 Crime Branch had requested the department to provide the details but I am not sure whether the details and documents related to the case have been supplied to the Crime Branch," an officer, pleading anonymity said.
He said that officer who was main accused in the scam was reinstated by the government secretly because he enjoys the political patronage. "We know the fact that the Crime Branch is still investigating the scam and hasn't completed it probe but it surprised us when the government last year reinstated the accused officer," he said.
He said an in-depth investigation into the misappropriation of ration, its pilferage and black-marketing has been initiated by Crime Branch Kashmir in a time bound manner for stringent action against the black-marketeers and officials involved in the scam. "Further investigations are underway to ascertain the losses incurred to state exchequer and actual amount of pilferage enabling the agency to fix responsibility and initiate action against the culprits," he said.
An officer of the concerned department at Pulwama revealed that they received 10,000 quintals of ration under the MMSFES for Pulwama district of 23rd of July and the same quantity was supplied to ration stores in the month of August while as the quantity of ration received in the month of August was misappropriated and black-marketed.
"This misappropriation of food grains didn't happen only in Pulwama district but in other districts as well because in 2016 Kashmir was witnessing bloodshed, curfews and strikes particularly during the months of July and August," he added. |
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