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| Complaint under RTI Act filed against J&K Bank | | Refusal to share details of back door appointments, NPAs contemptuous: Harsh Dev Singh | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 19: Flaying the J&K Bank for repeatedly refusing to reply to persistent RTI applications pertaining to alleged irregularities in appointments and fiscal indiscipline, Harsh Dev Singh former minister today warned to hold a series of protests outside the bank besides agitating the matter before the Reserve Bank of India.
Singh said that the exposure regarding thousands of back door appointments and other irregularities in J&K bank was made by the local media as well as the erstwhile J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik with no follow up action having been taken in respect of the said scam. Singh said that based on the media reports, as appearing after the sensational disclosure of the said ex governor, he had filed RTI applications with the J&K Bank which had consistently taken the bizarre plea that it could not share the said information erroneously and mischievously claiming exemption under sec-8 of RTI Act.
In a complaint filed with CIC, Singh sought punitive action against the defaulting officers of J&K Bank besides imposition of penalty for brazen defiance of the provisions of the transparency law. Singh said he had sought details of candidates appointed in the J&K Bank during the last six years without inviting applications and without following prescribed selection procedure.
Singh said that it was most amusing to find the bank giving a queer rather comical reply that such information was exempted under the RTI Act. Not only that the J&K Bank refused to share the details of its defaulters by claiming similar exemption, rued Singh. Likewise the said bank refused to share the other details pertaining to bad debts incurred by the bank, the loans advanced without mortgages and NPAs declared by it as sought through the mode of the transparency law, lamented Harsh.
Singh said that the concealment of information by the bank wherein 68 percent of the share belongs to govt is not only preposterous and opprobrious but also scandalous. It has only helped bolster the narrative that all is not well with the J&K Bank which has continued to be used as personal fiefdom by a well knit politician-bureaucrat mafia in J&K.
Appealing the LG to order a probe into the irregularities pointed out by his predecessors into the working of the said bank, Singh asserted that J&K Bank had not only indulged in brazen circumvention of RTI Act but had committed the most contemptuous mockery of the rulings of the CIC as well as the Apex Court which have repeatedly insisted for pro active disclosure of information by all public authorities.
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