Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: The State Vigilance Organization (SVO) today arrested four persons including three officials of the Rural Development Department, block Baghati-Kanipora and a former Sarpanch for their involvement in misappropriation of Government funds in construction of latrine points.
The arrested officials have been identified as Tanveer Ahmad Dar, Assistant Engineer, Sub Division Baghati-Kanipora, Tariq Ahmad Sheikh, Technical Assistant to MGNREGA, block BK Pora, Riyaz Ahmad Mir, Multi Purpose Worker and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Misger, then Sarpanch Halqa Donniwari.
A case had earlier been registered by the Vigilance Organisation for conducting verifications into the allegations that officers and officials of the Rural Development Department of block Baghati-Kanipora had misappropriated Government funds in construction of number of latrine points in Halqa Donniwari.
During investigations, randomly selected 37 beneficiaries of TSC, 13 latrine points were found non-existent. This way, an amount of Rs 66,300 had been misappropriated during the year 2012-13.
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