FARIDABAD (SATISH HANDA): Fraud of value worth Rs 200 crore in fake bills for nearly 388 developmental works by the municipal corporation Faridabad was detected with the involved of officers as well as four employees working on contract basis in technical and accounts department in the municipal corporation. Preliminary investigation revealed that most of the fake bills in which no work was done by the firms owned by the contractor Satbir were passed by the contractual staff in the municipal corporation on the direction of senior officers and payment released to the contractor without verification of work done. There was no record of work in case of 118 bills. Records also revealed that fake bills of value worth Rs 23,29,72,990 were issued by the contractor and 151 fake bills were falsely acknowledged and signed by a Junior Engineer in the Corporation Sher Singh already expired about nine months ago.
Four employees appointed on contract basis in the municipal corporation Rajan Tevtia a Junior Engineer, Pankaj, Tasleem and Pardeep Kumar both from accounts department and Deepak Kumar a tube well operator handling the charge of Junior Engineer were suspended on the orders of Commissioner and FIRs were registered against them with the police on the complaint of MC Commissioner Y.P. Yadav also demanded state government to take stern action against permanent employees of Corporation involved in this scam including Chief Accounts Officer, two Chief Engineers in th municipal corporation. Meanwhile, Congress MLA Neeraj Sharma during Vidhan Sabha session raised question on ruling government claiming a corruption-free government in the state for not taking action against senior officers involved in this scam worth hundreds crores and alleged high profile corruption in the system from bottom to top level employees in the state. The investigation in this fraud was ordered by MC Commissioner on the complaint of four municipal councillors Mohinder Choudhary, Surinder Aggarwal, Deepak Yadav and Deepak Choudhary on May 28, 2020 that payment worth hundreds crore was made to the contractor on the basis of fake bills when MC Commissioner constituted a committee of three senior officers led by Additional Commissioner to investigate the frauds and submit a report on July 7, 2020. Later another two persons Deputy Mayor Manmohan and Ajay Bansal a municipal councillor were also included in the investigation team which submitted investigation report to the Commissioner on November 18, 2020 confirming that the payment towards 388 bills raised by different firms owned by the contractor Satbir was paid and he was able to produce only 270 bills but failed to produce any work done through fake bills. |