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CUTTACK: In two rooms of a Kalyan Mandap, owned by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) near its office proper right here inside the millennium metropolis, a decade-old Vigilance case on pilferage of discount provides allegedly by officers and corporators of the civic physique have hold shut since 2013.
Seized as part of the investigation, the discount provides are each rotting or eaten away by bugs which most are clueless about. Just identical to the Vigilance is, regarding the case.So far, no chargesheet has however been filed inside the case registered in 2013. And over time, various accused have each retired from service whereas some have even handed away.
After cyclone Phailin hit the state, the state authorities had supplied discount provides along with 191.80 quintal rice, 79 baggage of dal of fifty kg each, 1,500 oil packets, 80 baggage of potatoes of fifty kg each, 48,636 packets of biscuits, 20 bins of lanterns and candles to CMC for distribution amongst 24,830 people who had been affected by the storm and shifted to 73 cyclone shelters.
Sources talked about, as a result of the civic physique was unable to produce cooked meals to the affected people for two days after the cyclone on October 11 and 12, 2013, it was decided that discount provides might be distributed on October 13.
However, some corporators and outsiders allegedly took away the discount provides from CMC office premises. It was alleged that the corporators, as a substitute of distributing the discount provides among the many many affected, gave a number of of it away to people at their very personal will. The remaining was distributed elsewhere.
After allegations surfaced, the state authorities on October 21 transferred the then CMC commissioner and suspended the deputy commissioner. BJD’s metropolis unit president Madhusudan Sahu too was suspended from the social gathering by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who ordered a Vigilance probe into the incident.
Following the order for probe, spherical 30 teams of the Vigilance searched the premises of corporators and the CMC office and seized the discount provides on October 29. After verifying paperwork referring to procurement and distribution of the discount provides at CMC office and quizzing officers of the civic physique, the Vigilance sleuths registered a case in opposition to 4 senior officers and 29 corporators (22 of them from the BJD) vide case no-27 on December 9, 2013.
However, the Vigilance didn’t make any progress in investigation. The firm neither arrested anyone accused of violating the discount code nor filed chargesheet even as a result of the case has been probed by 5 investigating officers (IOs) to date. As the anti-corruption wing dragged its toes on the case, some officers retired and two corporators accused inside the matter handed away.
“The case has already been investigated by five IOs. It is now difficult to file chargesheet as witnesses in the case are not available,” talked about Vigilance DSP RK Suba, the present IO of the case.
CUTTACK: In two rooms of a Kalyan Mandap, owned by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) near its office proper right here inside the millennium metropolis, a decade-old Vigilance case on pilferage of discount provides allegedly by officers and corporators of the civic physique have hold shut since 2013.
Seized as part of the investigation, the discount provides are each rotting or eaten away by bugs which most are clueless about. Just identical to the Vigilance is, regarding the case.So far, no chargesheet has however been filed inside the case registered in 2013. And over time, various accused have each retired from service whereas some have even handed away.
After cyclone Phailin hit the state, the state authorities had supplied discount provides along with 191.80 quintal rice, 79 baggage of dal of fifty kg each, 1,500 oil packets, 80 baggage of potatoes of fifty kg each, 48,636 packets of biscuits, 20 bins of lanterns and candles to CMC for distribution amongst 24,830 people who had been affected by the storm and shifted to 73 cyclone shelters.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Sources talked about, as a result of the civic physique was unable to produce cooked meals to the affected people for two days after the cyclone on October 11 and 12, 2013, it was decided that discount provides might be distributed on October 13.
However, some corporators and outsiders allegedly took away the discount provides from CMC office premises. It was alleged that the corporators, as a substitute of distributing the discount provides among the many many affected, gave a number of of it away to people at their very personal will. The remaining was distributed elsewhere.
After allegations surfaced, the state authorities on October 21 transferred the then CMC commissioner and suspended the deputy commissioner. BJD’s metropolis unit president Madhusudan Sahu too was suspended from the social gathering by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who ordered a Vigilance probe into the incident.
Following the order for probe, spherical 30 teams of the Vigilance searched the premises of corporators and the CMC office and seized the discount provides on October 29. After verifying paperwork referring to procurement and distribution of the discount provides at CMC office and quizzing officers of the civic physique, the Vigilance sleuths registered a case in opposition to 4 senior officers and 29 corporators (22 of them from the BJD) vide case no-27 on December 9, 2013.
However, the Vigilance didn’t make any progress in investigation. The firm neither arrested anyone accused of violating the discount code nor filed chargesheet even as a result of the case has been probed by 5 investigating officers (IOs) to date. As the anti-corruption wing dragged its toes on the case, some officers retired and two corporators accused inside the matter handed away.
“The case has already been investigated by five IOs. It is now difficult to file chargesheet as witnesses in the case are not available,” talked about Vigilance DSP RK Suba, the present IO of the case.
