Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 24: Vigilance Organization Kashmir has booked former Managing Director and Divisional Manager of State Forest Corporation for appointing 12 persons as Class-IV employees by misusing their official position.
A case FIR number 16/2014 under section 5(1)(e) read with 5(2) Prevention of Corruption Act and sections120B, 467, 468,471 RPC has been registered against Ex Managing Director Abdul Qayoom Khan (IFS), and Ex Divisional Manager Saw Mills Shalteng Srinagar, Ghulam Ahmad Mir.
The Vigilance verifications revealed that the two officers had engaged twelve persons including their close relatives as Grading Attendants on casual basis and then regularized them as Class IV employees.
Verification revealed that filling of Class IV had not been advertised through any media but picked up on choice. As per the report of then Divisional Manager Saw Mills Ghulam Ahmad Mir, the applicants had been found possessing necessary experience of Khatamband manufacturing and had successfully qualified the performance test.
During verification, nothing was found on record to suggest that the applicants were subjected to any experience test in Khatamband manufacturing. as conveyed by the Divisional Manager Saw Mills vide his letter No. 41 /DM/SM/SFC dated 17.04.2010 or any performance test as conveyed by him vide his letter No. 237/DM/SM dated 29.06.2010. These mentioned letters were not supported by the dispatch register in the office of Divisional Manager Saw Mills as another letter of same dispatch No.237 with some other subject was found in the records of his office. The letter No. 41 /DM/SM/SFC dated 17.04.2010 was also inserted in the dispatch register after mutilation.
It was also found that the “Khatamband Raw Material Bank” and “Common Facility Centre” at Shalteng Srinagar, against which the Grading Attendants were appointed, had not been established and as such their performance in the said Centre and subsequent performance test were out of question. It was further revealed that all the Grading Attendants were subsequently transferred to Territorial Divisions of SFC by the aforementioned Managing Director questioning the objective of their appointment against sanctioned posts of Common Facility Centre at Saw Mill Division Shalteng Srinagar.
During verification it was found that then Managing Director had sought approval of the Forest Minister (Chairman of SFC) on the basis of misrepresentation and false documents that the appointees were subject to work experience test and were found possessing necessary experience in Khatamband manufacturing.
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