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Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 18- State Vigilance Organization has registered a case against former Chief Engineer PMGSY, other officials and the contractor Ajay Gupta for abuse of their official position to confer undue benefit in award of contract of construction of roads in Poonch and Rajouri Districts.
In a case under FIR no 4/2009 P/S VOJ u/s 120 B r/w section 5(1) d 5(2) J&K P.C Act registered with the Vigilance Organization, a joint surprise check was conducted into allegations of manipulation of allotment of contract of works of road construction worth crores of rupees by officials of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to M/s Amardeep Constructions 62-Rehari Jammu during the year 2006-2007.
The check has revealed that Mir Shafi Ahmed, Chief Engineer PMGSY, J&K State, Jammu issued orders to Ajay Gupta Proprietor M/s Amardeep Constructions for execution of road from Mandi Loran to Arai, Poonch with project cost 176.00 lakhs; construction of road from Ujhan to Leeran, Rajouri estimating to cost Rs. 319.28 lakhs and construction of road from Manyal to Dhara, Rajouri involving a cost of Rs. 485.58 lakhs.
It was found that works were tendered and allotted to the so- called lowest tenderer who was declared qualified to execute the works. The accused public servants namely Mir Shafi Ahmed, Chief Engineer, T.R. Sargotra, Superintending Engineer Jammu, G.A. Sheikh, Financial Controller, V.K. Puri, Head Draftsman and K.D. Sharma, Statistical Officer, Direction office PMGSY Jammu entered into criminal conspiracy with Ajay Gupta, Proprietor M/s Amardeep Constructions, 62-Rehari Jammu and by abuse of their official position dishonestly entertained manipulated documents produced by beneficiary contractor Ajay Gupta to facilitate him (Contractor) the allotment of contracts.
It was found that Ajay Gupta (Contractor) was not eligible and did not qualify for allotment of works as he did not fulfill the pre-requisite conditionality mentioned in standard bidding document (SBD) /NIT. Ajay Gupta (Contractor) did not possess the requisite documents viz. work experience, annual turn over, works executed of similar nature, manpower details, equipment details, certificate from competent authority regarding satisfaction of completion of works etc. which were essential requirements mentioned in SBD/NIT to qualify for the allotment of works. The accused public servants as a part of criminal conspiracy dishonestly and fraudulently accepted documents of another firm M/s Amardeep Construction, Jaypore, District Koraput, Orissa produced by Ajay Gupta (Contractor) to qualify for the allotment of works.
The check has found that accused public servants adopted same modus-operandi in the process of allotting works to contractor (beneficiary). It was, however, found that work of construction of road from Manyal to Darra was not executed due to the dispute of land identified for the construction. The other two works were executed and paid for.
In this manner, accused public servants in league with accused contractor, by abuse of their official positions resorted to aforesaid omission and commission to confer undue benefit upon accused contractor and themselves.
A prima-facie case of criminal misconduct coupled with conspiracy is made out against the above named public servants and Ajay Gupta (Contractor) M/s Amardeep Constructions 62-Rehari Jammu, and the regular investigation has been taken up.
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