Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 9: Role of a former minister of the previous PDP-BJP government is under scanner after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against M S Choudhary, former Director, Tribal Affairs, J&K, who is presently posted as CEO/MD State Procurement and Supplies Agency RDD, J&K.
The said officer, who is facing charges of swindling funds worth lakhs meant to impart computer training to the poor Scheduled Tribes (STs) student, was blue-eyed boy of the former minister.
Credible sources said that it was all due to support of the said minister that M S Choudhary was appointed as Director, Tribal Affairs, J&K. “As the former minister was very much aware that huge funds would be pumped by the Centre directly to the Tribal Affairs Department, he took a tough stand that Choudhary must be appointed as Director of the same department”, sources revealed to the Early Times.
Sources disclosed that it was all due to the former minister’s patronage, M S Choudhary took many important policy decisions on its own, which he was not competent to take. Importantly on March 4, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), J&K, registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120-B of the RPC against MS Choudhary, then Director, Tribal Affairs, J&K, (now posted as CEO/MD State Procurement & Supplies Agency RDD, J&K); Ali Hassan Raza, then Director, Tribal Affairs, J&K, (now retired), private beneficiary namely Nasreen Qadir of Jammu, proprietor of International Computer Training Centre, Rajouri, and other officials of the Tribal Affairs Department.
The case was registered after a verification conducted by the ACB into the allegations that Director, Tribal Affairs, J&K, while implementing Post-Matric Scholarship scheme entitled for ST candidates indulged in gross violation of guidelines and released crores of rupees to unrecognised institutes for unrecognised courses.
The ACB also conducted simultaneous raids at the residences of Choudhary in Rajouri and at his official residence in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu. |
