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DELHI Lieutenant Governor, Vinai Kumar Saxena, directed the Chief Secretary on Saturday to file a FIR towards Delhi Jal Board officers and others for Rs 20 crore embezzlement, in accordance to a press release reported by information company ANI.
L-G directs Chief Secy to lodge FIR towards Delhi Jal Board, others for embezzlement of Rs 20 crore
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September 24, 2022
According to the assertion, the LG has additionally directed that officers/officers of the Delhi Jal Board concerned within the above siphoning of funds be recognized, their tasks assigned, and instructed to submit a report inside 15 days.
The assertion additionally reads that for a number of years, money totaling over Rs 20 crore collected as water payments from people went to a non-public checking account relatively than DJB’s checking account, leading to enormous monetary losses to the Delhi Jal Board.
The DJB appointed Corporation Bank as its banker to acquire water payments on its behalf by an order in June 2012 for 3 years, which was renewed in 2016, 2017, and even 2019 after the fraud was found.
In flip, the financial institution, in full violation of the contract phrases and with the information of DJB officers, employed a non-public company, M/s Freshpay IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd., to acquire money and cheques and deposit them in DJB’s checking account.
While extending the financial institution’s contract past October 10, 2019, when Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was the Chairman of DJB, it was found that grave irregularities had occurred concerning the delayed/non-deposition of money by the financial institution through the contract interval from August 11, 2012, to October 10, 2019.
It was found that Rs. 20 crore (together with curiosity, penalties, and so forth) deposited by shoppers had not been transferred into the DJB’s checking account. Despite this, the Board of Directors, led by Kejriwal, prolonged Corporation Bank’s contract, and thus that of M/s Freshpay IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd., the financial institution’s assortment agent, till 2020.
Furthermore, the DJB not solely prolonged their contract however elevated their service charge from Rs 5 to Rs 6 per invoice.
Following that, it was found that money payments collected from Delhi residents had been deposited within the Federal Bank after which transferred to the personal account of 1 M/s Aurrum E-Payments Pvt. Ltd., relatively than being deposited within the DJB’s checking account.
The Delhi LG has taken severe word of the truth that, regardless of the fraud being uncovered, the DJB not solely didn’t make any effort to get well the cash and punish the responsible, but in addition prolonged the embezzlers’ contract by one other yr, establishing prima facie connivance.
