Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 31: In a major crackdown on grassroot level corruption, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) today carried out surprise checks at the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) after receiving complaints of rampant corruption in the award of tenders and other public services including birth and death certificates etc.
The CBI raids were conducted in coordination with the Vigilance wing of the Jammu Municipal Corporation to verify the allegations, official sources told the Excelsior.
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The CBI teams checked various points of public dealing in the Jammu Municipal Corporation from where the complaints of bribery were received, like the birth and death certificate issuance office, sanitation office, vehicle hiring, petrol bills clearance among others, sources said, adding the raids lasted six hours.
The teams scrutinized documents from the civic body and if any corruption is detected, the agency may start filing FIRs in these matters, they said.
Sources said the CBI had received complaints about irregularities in allotment of tenders. They added that record pertaining to tenders has been seized for verifications. Record from some other sections was also seized during raids by the CBI sleuths.
Some officials could be called for questioning based on the scrutiny of documents, sources said.
On August 10, the probe agency had carried out a similar surprise check at the Jammu and Kashmir Small Scale Industries Development Corporation after businessmen had complained of corruption in the award of tenders, they said.
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