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| Court frames corruption charges against former Asst Director CAPD | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, November-15 (JNF):- Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption
Jammu Jaffer Hussain Beigh today framed corruption charges against
former Incharge Assistant Director CAPD Circle-III Jammu, Baldev Singh
then Inspector CAPD Circle-III Jammu and Sumeet Behal.
While framing charges the court observed that the
official accused hatched criminal conspiracy with private accused who
managed to get new ration depot No 297 allotted in favour of Sumeet
Behal at Shastri Nagar Jammu by abusing official position submitted a
wrong report and got fictitious ration cards prepared in respect of
the persons under BPL/AAY Category, who were already drawing ration
under APL category from other ration depots and have never drawn
ration from accused Sumeet Behal at Depot situated at Shastri Nagar
Jammu.
According to VO case verification was conducted into the
allegations of fraudulent and dishonest distribution of Govt Ration
issued in eligible beneficiaries under the scheme Antyodaya Anna
Yojana (AAY) and Below Poverty Line (BPL). It was alleged that records
were manipulated by the officials of CAPD Jammu during the year
2004-2005, for this purpose verification was conducted which reveals
two schemes known as BPL and AAY were implemented in the J&K State in
the year 1997 and 2001 under the scheme food grains weighing 35 KG per
family per month were to be issued at the following subsidized rates,
BPL scheme wheat @ 4.75 Per KG, Atta Rs 5 Per KG, Rice Rs 6.25 Per KG
under AAY Scheme, Wheat Rs 2 Per KG, Rice Rs 3 Per KG. During
investigation it was found that Jammu Urban Development Authority
(JUDA) would conduct the survey and identify the families belonging to
BPL category and issued a list of families to concerned dept CAPD.
CAPD send this list to concerned Assistant Director. During
verification it was found that CAPD established new ration depot No
297 at Nai Basti Jammu where under 636 families earlier drawing Govt
ration from depot No 130 and 264 situated at Shastri Nagar Nai Basti
Jammu were merged to new depot for the purpose of drawing Govt ration.
The investigation was conducted by Mrs. Rashmi Wazir SP VOJ
Organization and during the course of investigation it has been found
that from February 2004 to September 2006 1820 qtls of BPL Rice, 1823
qtls of BPL Atta and 886 qtls of AAY Rice has been issued by the
Assistant Director CAPD in favour of ration depot No 297. It has been
further found that the said ration has not been drawn by the consumers
as they were not provided any ration card. The consumers shown
attached with ration depot NO 297 already drawing ration from other
ration depots under APL category who continue to draw the ration till
the registration of FIR and it has been found that on the basis of
manipulation and distortions has resulted a loss of Rs 13, 69, 900/-
lacs caused to the State exchequer and Court today framed charges u/s
5(1) (d) Prevention of Corruption Act 1947 r/w section 120-B RPC.
Meanwhile the court granted three day police remand of
Patwari Balwan Singh who was caught red-handed by the VOJ on November
14, 2011 while accepting bribe Rs 5000/- from the complainant.
The accused Patwari was produced in the Court by the
Vigilance Organization for grant of police remand because
investigation of police is not complete. Court considered the
application arguments of the Senior PO for the state and perused the
application and gone through the case dairy, granted three days police
custody remand of the accused with observation that accused be
medically examined after every 48 hours. JNF
JNF/NOVEMBER/15/2011/1
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