Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 8: State Vigilance Commission (SVC) while blowing lid off the bogus and multiple ration card scam in Kathua has directed the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kathua to furnish Action Taken Report (ATR) in weeding out the spurious ration cards from the District.
Earlier, while proceeding on a complaint regarding bogus and multiple ration cards possessed by some inhabitants of District Kathua including by some “Non-State Residents”, resulting in misappropriation of Government ration at large as well as black marketing of essential food commodities in connivance and conspiracy with the officers/officials of CAPD Department, which tantamounts to criminal breach of trust on the part of officials concerned causing a huge loss to the State Exchequer, State Vigilance Commission ordered Deputy Commissioner Kathua, for in-depth enquiry into the matter and submission of report thereof.
The report submitted by the Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, prima-facie depicted series of omissions and commissions committed by the officers/officials of CAPD Department. The report further revealed that despite having adequate evidence, no action seems to have been taken against the erring officers/officials of the public distribution system in the District.
SVC stocked over the siphoning-off of the Government ration with the active patronage of the officials of CAPD Department has directed Deputy Commissioner, Kathua to take stern action against those involved in the scam and submit the Action Taken Report (ATR) to the Commission on the next date of hearing.
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