Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 23: High Court today dismissed the plea filed by Suman Sharma, President NGO M/s SS Institute of Professional and Technical Education (Girls) against whom CBI has registered FIR for criminal conspiracy, abuse of official position, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery of valuable security, using the forged documents as genuine and thereby causing wrongful loss to the Government exchequer.
After hearing Senior Advocate Abhinav Sharma for the petitioner whereas Advocate Monika Kohli for the CBI, Justice Rajnesh Oswal observed, “it is evident that preliminary enquiry was registered against M/s. SS Institute of Professional and Technical Education (Girls) and 9 other NGOs on the basis of source information report that the NGOs through their representatives in league with the officials of marketing and service extension centres Jammu under the office of Regional Director (NR) and office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry of Textiles, Government of India were wrongly got sanctioned centrally sponsored schemes/workshop and thereafter siphoned off Central Government funds worth crores of rupees”.
“During the course of enquiry, it was found that the interventions 18 in numbers were not conducted properly or not conducted at all with mala fide intention to cheat the public as well as Handicraft Department”, High Court said, adding “the panel designer was supposed to remain present at the workshop site for a specified time period that is ten days in a fifteen days workshop. However, enquiry revealed that the panel designers had attended the workshop on the day of inspection of the concerned Assistant Director only”.
“It was also revealed during the enquiry that the fake utilization certificates were prepared and showed the compensation paid to the artisans through the cheques. The artisans disowned their signatures on the Acquaintance Roll in token of having received payments”, High Court observed, adding the allegations leveled in the FIR against the petitioner disclose the commission of cognizable offence and further in view of the investigation conducted by the Investigating Officer, this is not a case that warrants the exercise of powers under Section 561-A (now 482) CrPC for quashing the FIR.
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