Rs 7 cr pretend invoice rip-off: Gujarat govt official suspended, inquiry on

Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, on Friday, ordered rapid suspension of an account officer below Ahmedabad District Panchayat in reference to a pretend invoice rip-off value Rs 7 crore, and an inquiry into your complete episode. Patel introduced the motion in an official message which he additionally posted on social media.
The officer has been recognized as Hardik Prajapati. The alleged rip-off is said to the schooling sector in Ahmedabad district.
Ahmedabad District Development Officer (DDO) Anil Dhameliya stated {that a} Deputy Account Officer has already been suspended within the episode and three separate FIRs have been registered towards him. Two taluka main schooling officers have additionally been suspended on this connection.
According to Dhameliya, the alleged rip-off runs into near Rs 8 crore during which the involved officers are accused of constructing duplicate payments of lecturers’ earned leaves on the time of retirement.
At the identical time, these named culprits within the episode are accused of crediting authorities’s grants, associated to admissions of 25% college students in faculties below Right to Education Act, in some third events’ accounts as a substitute of the faculties involved.

Between 2015 and 2021, whole 53 such transactions got here to the discover of the district authorities.
“We have registered three FIRs against the Deputy Account Officer in three talukas (with charges like fraud, breach of trust etc.) and Prajapati has been suspended (today) because this has happened in his section and one person has done it in three different talukas. His further inquiry will begin by the government,” Dhameliya added.