Kaithal: The team of Anti Corruption Bureau has arrested seven persons including the XEN and SDO of the ‘Zila Parishad’ in the case of scam of about Rs 7 crore out of grant sanctioned for Rs 16.31 crore and amount worth Rs 10 crore was to be spent for the cleanliness. n 2021 when people in the state were facing ‘Carona’ epidemic outbreak. 10 ACB teams started investigation in the case and arrested seven persons including then SDO presently posted Executive Engineer Naveen Kumar at Rohtak, Jasbir Singh SDO presently posted at Pehowa, Kulwant Singh Accountant presently posted at Narnaul, Dilbag Singh resident of village Faridabad, Abhay Sandhu resident of village Kutubpur and Anil resident of Pundri and Rajesh Garg resident of Pundri all contractors involved in fraud conspiracy. were taken into custody.
The Anti Corruption Bureau team started an investigation interrogating the detained officers and contractors. A complaint regarding this was given by Kaithal MLA Leela Ram in the year 2021. ACB Inspector Mahendra Singh said that all these persons have been arrested to be produced in the court. He said that an amount of Rs 31 crore 64 lakh had come to the Zilla Parishad for the development works of rural areas. Out of this, about Rs 11 crore was to be spent on cleanliness campaigns in the villages. This amount was shown to have been spent on paper, but there was no cleanliness in the villages and fake bills were allegedly prepared by the contractors and the amount was released to eight firms.
Regarding the embezzlement of crores of rupees in the name of cleanliness, Babli Chandana, the outgoing councilor from Zilla Parishad Ward No. 7, along with her husband Billu Chandana, had raised the entire issue by lodging protest . They had alleged that in the name of cleanliness, huge money had been swindled . There was no cleanliness, but fake bills were prepared and the amount was deposited in the accounts of the firms. ACB investigation further revealed that the alleged accused had completed hardly 30% work and amount of embezzled amount was remitted in the account of alleged accused identified as Rs 78 lkh was deposited in the account of Naveen Kumar Executive Engineer, Rs 26.89 lakh deposited in the account of Jasbir Singh SDO, Rs 1 crore 26 lakh deposted in the account of Contractor Dilbagh Singh, Rs 41 lakh deposited in the account of contractor Rajesh Garg, Rs 67 lakh deposited in the account of Contractor Anil, Rs 47 lakh deposited in the account of contractor Ahay and no amount was found transferred in the account of Kulwant Singh Accountant.
