Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24- State Vigilance Organisation has registered a case against officials of Cooperative Societies of Poonch and Lassana, Surankote for misappropriation of public funds to the tune of Rs 1, 03, 476.
Case FIR No 02 /2009 P/S VOJ u/s 120-B, 409, 467, 468, 471 RPC r/w section 5(2) J&K Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006 was registered following verification conducted into allegation of misappropriation of public funds by the officials of Cooperative Society, Poonch and Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) Lassana, Surankote during the year 1999 to 2003.
The verification revealed that accused public servants namely Shakeel Ahmad, presently Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Society Surankote, Baldev Raj and Surinder Singh, then auditors of Cooperative Society, Poonch entered into criminal conspiracy with Anwar Hussain, Secretary, Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Lassana, Surankote and by abuse of their official position dishonestly resorted to manipulation of records and misappropriated Rs 1, 03, 476 collected as sale proceeds of fertilizers etc.
The accused public servant in furtherance of criminal conspiracy made false entries in cashbook of the society in the form of double and fictitious entries during the period 1999 to 2003. The accused public servant thereafter prepared incorrect and fake audit reports to adjust illegally misappropriated amount of Rs.1, 03, 476.
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