Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: The Vigilance Organization Jammu has booked then Executive Engineer (R&B), Special Sub-Division, Mahore, Sunil Gupta, for abusing his official position and allotting the works worth more than Rs 2.5 crore to his blue eyed contractors under the garb of departmental execution.
A case FIR No 17/2013 under Section 5(1) (d) r/w 5 (2) P.C. Act 2006, 120-B RPC was registered in Police Station VOJ against him and others on the basis of a verification conducted by Vigilance.
The verification has established that the works amounting to approximately 2.53 crores were got executed departmentally by Executive Engineer, R&B Special Sub Division, Mahore by deliberately fragmenting them in parts so as to bring them within financial competence and undue benefit has been conferred upon blue-eyed contractors by first allotting them work without inducing any competition and further releasing payments in their favour without deducting service tax from their payments.
The payments worth Rs 2,53,87,520 have been released without deducting service tax amounting to Rs 26,65,689 from the bills of regular contractors who executed these works.
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