Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 9: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today produced a charge sheet against Dr Fayaz Ahmad Banday, the then Block Medical Officer Beerwah & others in a funds misappropriation case
The challan has been produced in case FIR No. 26/2014 in Anti Corruption Court Srinagar against Dr Fayaz Ahmad Banday (then DDO/ BMO Beerwah), Mushtaq Ahmad Parray, then Jr. Assistant cum cashier Medical Block Beerwah and Zahoor Ahmad, then Pharmacist Medical Block Beerwah.
Detailing the case history, the Bureau said that during the investigation it was found that accused officials of Medical Block Beerwah, “have misappropriated and embezzled an amount of Rs.11589851 from Treasury Beerwah against the fake, fictitious salary bills drawn against the non-existent employees or against the officials of Medical Block Beerwah which have not received the amount nor were entitled for the same or against the staff engaged under NRHM scheme for whom there is separate mechanism of disbursing their salaries and on account of wages meant for the consolidated/part time workers.”
It also revealed in blatant violation of financial rules and regulations and “with criminal intention of accused”, the DDO had issued a cheque in the name of self from the official account and similarly had transferred the amount from salary account into the NRHM official CD account.
“Accused officer/officials while preparing fake/fictitious/double drawal bills and drawing same from the Treasury have destroyed the office copy of such bills along-with invoices issued thereof,” the ACB said.
The charge sheet was produced before the Court of Special Judge Anti Corruption Srinagar after Government accorded prosecution sanction in respect of in-service accused 3 public servants. The trial of the case, the ACB said, is going on.
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