Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 11: The police detected some embezzlement worth over rupees one crore in the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Department and detained two employees in this connection in Rajouri today.
Sources said that acting on basis of inputs that some money is being deposited in the J&K Bank Branch Rajouri in hush-hush manner by CAPD officials, sensing inquiry as after filing an RTI by a local, massive irregularities came to the fore. The inputs were also passed on to police in this connection. It was alleged that embezzlement was to the tune of nearly Rs 10 crore in last seven years in the area. As the police had started secret inquiry, during the process, it came to be known that an Accountant of the CAPD Department Rajouri, Som Raj and Clerk Suresh Kumar were depositing some money in hush-hush manner.
The police team trapped both. The team found that they had Rs 99,97,500 with them and all fresh currency notes. They detected that they had filled slips of Rs 2 crore and also shown the same amount in the official ledger but only Rs 99.97 lakh was deposited there in the Assistant Director CAPD’s official Account No. 1115 (CAPD), J&K Bank Branch Rajouri. One of the employee slipped while accountant failed to give detail about the source of money. He simply said that Assistant Director asked to deposit the money in the official account in the Bank.
The police said that shortage/ embezzlement may run into several crores and the investigation was in progress.
SSP Rajouri, Mubassar Lattifi, when contacted said that they had already received sufficient inputs regarding some embezzlement/ shortage in the CAPD Rajouri. A secret inquiry was already on. He said all the concerned employees including the Assistant Director, Abdul Qayoom, failed to give satisfactory reply about the source of this money being deposited in Bank today. He said Deputy Commissioner Rajouri has also been intimated and requested to hold a departmental inquiry into the matter.
Assistant Director, Rajouri, Mr Qayoom, when contacted claimed that his staff was depositing the money in the official account of the Bank and there was nothing wrong. But he avoided to give direct reply of the question regarding source of this money being deposited in the bank. He said that he was busy in some official work and will be available after some time. It is that said Qayoom has joined recently and this embezzlement pertained to the previous period. However, the police was investigating.
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