Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 23: The State Vigilance Organization has booked some officers of the Education Department and former members of State Advisory Board for Development of Pahari Speaking People for siphoning Government scholarship of the students.
A case FIR number 15/2014 Police Station VOK has been registered under Section 5(1) (C), (d) r/w 5(2) PC Act 2006 and 120-B, 468,471 &409 RPC against the accused officers and members of Advisory Board.
An enquiry conducted into the allegations of mishandling of funds allotted by the Government on account of scholarship of Pahari Speaking/Gujjar and Bakerwal students revealed that in the year 2009-10 and 2010-11, Mohammad Syed Shah, the then ZEO Vilgam and Gh Mohi-ud-Din Wani the then ZEPO Vilgam, hatched a criminal conspiracy with Abdul Majid Zindadil then member the State Advisory Board of Development of Pahari speaking people/headmaster of zone Vilgam and prepared fake and forged lists of Gujjar/Bakerwal and Pahari speaking students for showing disbursement of Rs 6.27 lakh as scholarship.
In the similar manner in the year 2010-11 the then ZEPO Gh Mohi-ud-Din Wani prepared fake and forged lists of Gujjar/Bakerwal and Pahari speaking students and by incorporating non-existing students of the two categories in the education Zone Vilgam authenticated by the then ZEO Vilgam Ali Mohammad Dar.
These officers in a criminal conspiracy with each other and in furtherance with Headmaster of zone Vilgam Sonaullah (I/C Scholarship) ZEO office Vilgam, Abdul Majid Zindadil, member State Advisory Board for Development of Pahari speaking people, Mohammad Yaseen Badana then member G&B Advisory Board District Kupwara have shown disbursement of Rs 12.10 lakh as per the fictitious acquaintance/disbursement register.
The verification further revealed that these public servants by abuse of their official positions misappropriated an amount of Rs 6.23 lakh by showing the number of students as 1984 as against 996 of Pahari/ G&B students thereby causing corresponding loss to the State exchequer.
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