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| SVO books Pranav Gandotra for ‘swindling’ govt money | | His bosses still untouched, voices to act against them become shriller | | Jammu, July 19: State Vigilance Organization has registered a formal case against Pranav Gandotra, then I/C TSO Rajouri and Kalakote for allegedly swindling the government money.
In a statement here a spokesman of SVO said, “ FIR No. 21/2018 U/S 5 (1) (c), 5(1) (d) read with section 5 (2) Prevention of Corruption Act Svt 2006 on 18/07/2018 has been registered against the accused official on the basis of verification conducted into the complaint lodged by Mohammad Zaffar. The complainant had alleged that Pranav Gandotra Incharge TSO Rajouri and Kalakote received an amount of Rs. 8020914/- from Asstt. Director CA&PD department Rajouri through two official cheques on amount of handling charges, meant to be disbursed to the concerned private ration dealers in district Rajouri and the said officer disbursed lesser amount to the private dealers and has wrongly withdrawn the remaining amount from treasury.”
An official of the department wishing anonymity said, “Booking Gandotra is a tip of an ice-berg. His bosses, who were also a part of the scam are roaming scot free. The SVO probe is a welcome step but the sleuths of the organization should tighten the noose around others also.”
Meanwhile, the SVO spokesman said, “ Verification conducted by the SVO revealed that Gandotra had received two cheques issued by Assistant Director, CA&PD Rajouri bearing no.132004 dated 03-06-2015 & no. 132014 dated 10-06-2015 amounting to Rs. 39,56,094/- & Rs. 41,64,820/- respectively for disbursement of handling charges among the private ration dealers. However, on examination of the ration dealers and scrutiny of record by the Vigilance Organization, it came to fore that he has actually disbursed lesser amount to the private ration dealers and manipulated the official record thereby misappropriated huge amount of government money causing corresponding loss to the state ex-chequer. Verification further reveals that suspect officer in a short span of service career enjoyed prize postings managed on the basis of illegal activities and ill gotten money,” the spokesman claimed.
He said, “On the prima-facie establishment of allegations, SVO registered a formal case under relevant section of law and also conducted simultaneous raids with the help of local police /magistrates at the residences/flats/office of accused person in Jammu in presence of independent witnesses. During the process, huge quantity of Gold (weighing more than 4 KG), Silver (weighing more than 11 KG) in the shape of ornaments/utensils worth in crores, were recovered and seized. Documents pertaining to various immovable properties acquired by accused public servant are also recovered and seized. Further detail of moveable property i.e. Fortuner Car, Innova Car and i10 Car have been obtained. Detailed and in-depth scrutiny of the seized record will be carried out during further course of investigation by sleuths of vigilance organization.”
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