Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: Questioning the State Vigilance Organization’s investigation into tiles fixing scam, National Secular Forum (NSF) today said that senior officials, who were instrumental in the scam and cleared the bills without checking the veracity of executed work, were being shielded by the varsity administration.
Addressing the media persons here on the campus, Surjit Choudhary, senior vice-president NSF said that though the Vigilance Organization had registered a case against the engineers who had fraudulently withdrawn over Rs 3 lakh for non-executed work but they spared the ‘bosses’ who intentionally cleared the bills and let the scam happen.
“Their involvement in the scam can’t be ruled-out as they were part and parcel of the project. They should also be grilled for a fair and
transparent probe,” the NSF leader said.
“The varsity officials have made the mockery of the system and it could be well gauged that they allowed the fixing of tiles, against which funds were withdrawn fraudulently, during nights and that too, the day when the Vigilance had booked three engineers,” he said.
The NSF leader said the ‘inefficient’ and ‘corrupt’ officials were calling the shots on the Campus, while the Vice-Chancellor has turned ‘mute spectator’ to the issue.
He warned that NSF activists would launch indefinite agitation on the campus and at tehsil level, if the Vice-Chancellor didn’t initiate action against the corrupt officers including his OSD.
He also threatened that they would hold stage dharnas (sit-in) outside the Raj Bhawan if the University failed to act sternly against the corrupt officers.
Among those who were present in the press conference included Ravi Choudhary, Vimal Kumar, Sukhdev Singh, Narinder Singh, Balveer, Chiman Singh and Vikram Kumar.
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