Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 4: The State Vigilance Organization has booked several officers and officials of Irrigation and Flood Control, Division Kupwara for misappropriation of Government money by inflating measurement and wrong calculations.
A case FIR number 20/2014 at Police Station VOK has been registered under Section 5(1)(c), (d) read with 5(2) PC Act Svt 2006 and 120-B RPC against Mohammad Sarwar Dar, then Executive Engineer, Khazar Mohammd Khanday then AEE, Gh Mohi-ud-Din Peer then JE, Ab Aziz Kumar then Head Draftsman, Akther Mohi-ud-Din Baba and Irfan Ahmad Bhat, the then Draftsmen of I&FC Division Kupwara ( Hqrs. Handwara) for abusing their official positions and misappropriating an amount of Rs 11,55,906.
The case was registered following an enquiry conducted into the allegations that officers and officials of Irrigation and Flood Control Division (I&FC) Kupwara in connivance with contractor embezzled huge amount of Government fund in the year 2008-09 and 2009-10 while executing various works.
The enquiry revealed that the work of Increasing Capacity by way of deepening and widening of Dharamwari Storage tank, allotted by Mohammad Sarwar Dar, then Ex Engineer I&FC Kupwara, in favour of Nazir Ahmad Mir (Contractor) at the allotted cost of Rs 18.265 lakhs, later on extended to Rs 19.949 lakhs and full payment was made against the work. However, during inspection, the actual measurements recorded on M Book did not tally with ground situation and were found lesser to the paid ones. The quantity of earthwork found executed on ground was 5926 cubic meters against a paid quantity of 14091 cubic meters thereby causing loss to the tune of Rs 11,55,906/- to State exchequer. This amount is also inclusive of loss of Rs 2,47,762/- caused on account of wrong calculation made by the concerned Engineers and Draftsmen of the division.
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