Purushottam character. Gariaband. On May 18, on the report of Mainpur BMO Gajendra Dhruv, the then BMO of Mainpur Police Station KK Negi, the then District Treasury Officer Guruvendra Sao (currently Bemetara Treasury Officer), DP Verma (currently Mahasamund Treasury Officer), KK Dubey (currently Balodabazar Apart from treasury officer), a case has been registered against clerk Virendra Bhandari, Santosh Komara, GC Kurre, Bhojram Dewan, ward boy Vinod Dhruv, driver Bharat Nande, Lukesh Chaturvedani under various sections of fraud. Confirming the action, Mainpur police station in-charge Shiv Shankar Hurra said that crimes have been registered against the accused under sections 420, 467, 471, 409 and 120 B and further action is being taken under the guidance of higher officials.
Rs 3.13 crore withdrawn from treasury in 4 years
According to the investigation report, from the financial year 2016-17 to 2019-20, the then BMO posted at Mainpur Community Health Center made bogus files of arias, increments, additional salaries in the names of more than 60 employees under his subordinates, certified them himself and sent them to the treasury. Used to do this, treasury officers also used to release payments without verification. Most of the payments were sent to the personal account of Punjab National Bank specified by the BMO instead of the account of the employee related to the file.
In this way, withdrawal of Rs 3 crore 13 lakh 43971 in 4 years
The money of the employees whose accounts were credited to the bogus file was directly withdrawn after declaring it to be by mistake. Apart from the then BMO of Devbhog, Dr. Sunil Bharti, these irregularities were confirmed by the district administration in the investigation report of the then ADM JR Chaurasia in 2020.
Treasury officers play on zero budget
ADM Chaurasia had submitted the final report of the case to the district administration in 2022. It has been revealed in this report that the funds withdrawn in a bogus manner were being withdrawn from the zero budget present in the treasury, in which the treasury officials had a full role. It is said that such fraud has also been done in the Education Department. Experts also say that the hooliganism of zero budget is not only in Gariaband, the officers involved in this game have carried out this game wherever they went.
Busted due to alert personnel
In October 2019, when the bogus amount reached the accounts of the employees of Mainpur Block, BMO asked them to withdraw it and return it, more than half of them returned it but there were 6 employees who did not allow withdrawal without writing. When the matter escalated, the health workers organization Reached. A complaint was made to the then Health Minister T S Singh Deo. The sooner the matter escalated, the sooner it cooled down in the Congress government. The new officers of the district were reviewing the pending files, when they came across this big fraud file.
ADM Arvind Pandey says that as soon as information about this file was received, it was duly moved after bringing it to the notice of the Collector. After getting permission from the government and bringing it to the notice of the concerned department, a case has been registered in Mainpur police station for action against the culprits.