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| VOJ presents challan in microscope scam | | CEOs among 7 accused | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 31: Vigilance Organization Jammu (VoJ) presented challan in much publicized microscope purchase scam against 7 persons including Chief Education Officers in the Court of Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu.
According to the challan, during the year 2004-2005 Education Department Jammu purchased substandard laboratory equipments including microscopes for examining properties of minerals on highly exorbitant rates.
Accordingly JSC was conducted. It revealed that in response to the tender notice issued on August 25, 2004 Divisional Level Purchase Committee of Education Dept Jammu, M/S Cosmo Politan Traders Vir-Marg Jammu offered quotations for supply of MICROSCOPES @ Rs 1800 per MICROSCOPE as against print price/bills of Rs 650/-. Mr. Jatinder Kumar Gupta then Accounts Officer, Directorate of School Education Jammu (Member Secretary), Balwan Singh Lecturer SIE Jammu as Expert. The enquiry further revealed that Mr. Rameshwar Sharma then Lecturer Geology Govt Higher Secondary School Samba being an expert member has also facilitated the approval of rate and purchase of sub-standard dissection MICROSCOPES instead of MICROSCOPES intended to be purchased for testing Geology. Having succeeded in getting the rates approved with active connivance of experts suppliers S Jasvinder Singh Manocha Prop of M/s Cosmo Politan Traders Vir-Marg Jammu reported M/S Prem Parkash Verma then CEO Kathua (Now Expired), Balbir Singh Jamwal and Thakur Dass Sharma then CEO Pooch in criminal conspiracy by abuse of their official positions with ulterior motive of extracting maximum undue benefit out of the deal have purchased MICROSCOPES on highly exorbitant rates much over and above the actual recruitment. The purchases thus effected have put the state exchequer to the loss of Rs 3.45 lacs. The act of omission and commission on the part of accused public servants and accused suppliers constituted offences u/s 5(1) (d) r/w 5(2) PC Act 2006 BK and section 120-B RPC and after completion of the investigation challan was presented against the persons in which it has been mentioned that during tendering process they had also received one of the quotations from M/S United Sales Corporation Jammu mentioning the single nose price small size Ambala make specifications @ Rs 395/- per MICROSCOPE and the accused persons rejected this offer without assigning any specific reason thereby violating instructions of the Govt.
According to the challan it has been found that M.K Dwivedi then Director School Education Jammu Convener and other members of Divisional Level Purchase Committee i.e. Dr. RR Dubey then Joint Director School Education, Sohan Lal Seghal then CEO Jammu (retired), Lalit Gupta Principal SIE Jammu and Rakesh Kumar Functional Manager Directorate of Ind. And Commerce co-opted member have been completely misled by the expert committee. The expert committee members wrongly and falsely certified that sample microscope with full knowledge stating that be as per NIT, whereas sample microscope was not at all as per the specifications provided in the tender. Since the matter was technical in nature, purchase committee members believed the report of expert committee regarding quality and specification of the microscope and Vigilance Organization recommended Departmental Enquiry against all the members of the Purchase Committee. JNF
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