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| | Another embezzlement surfaces in DDK | | CBI places requisition for contracts, offer sheets | | SRINAGAR, Sep 22: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team from its Jammu office that raided Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar on Friday has placed a requisition for contracts and offer sheets with the present director here today.
Informed sources revealed to Kashmir Times that it may take few days for the director DDK to handover these documents to the investigating agency currently probing an embezzlement of worth over Rs 3 Crores.
“There is around an estimated embezzlement of Rs 11 Cores in last few years but currently the CBI is probing the money (Rs 3 Crores) that has been withdrawn against various bank accounts on fictitious names in last four years,” reliable and well placed sources disclosed, adding that money has been withdrawn by the DD officers in the names of people, who have never visited Doordarshan and have no knowledge of these illegal transactions.
The DDK Srinagar has been in news for last many years for irregularities, embezzlements and frauds involving crores of rupees which have been drained by few senior officials of the Kendra known for their proximity with some political families. Two years ago, on May 27, CBI had raided the residence of a programme executive and her assistant working in Doordarshan Srinagar, where the investigating agency had seized 50 fictitious bank accounts, PAN Cards besides hundreds of signed blank contract papers.
A team of CBI sleuths had raided the house of Kounser Parveen the programme executive in Iqbal Colony, Indira Nagar, Srinagar.
At least 50 bank accounts with different fictitious names besides PAN Cards signed by the Commissioner Income Tax, blank contract papers signed by different people, were recovered from Parveen’s house. Parveen, who was present during the time of CBI raid, was not arrested.
However, her assistant Nisar Ahmad Qazi, a resident of Fair Bank Colony Rawalpora was arrested by the CBI.
The fictitious bank accounts, sources said, were being operated by Qazi. These accounts were opened in different banks including Yes Bank, State Bank of India, Cooperative Bank and J&K Bank Limited. More arrests are likely to be made by the CBI in this connection.
“Parveen and her assistant Qazi would claim money in the names of a number of fictitious persons who have never ever seen the DD Srinagar premises,” sources maintained. An FIR (3/2010) was registered by CBI under section 419, 420, 467 R.P.C, section 52 read with 51 of Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act 2006.
On June 12, 2009 the CBI had registered the FIR 02/A/2009/CBI/Sgr against former Director Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar Dr Rafiq Masoodi and seven private producers on the charges of hatching a criminal conspiracy.
These DDK officials had allegedly purchased 1914 tapes containing 9591 segments of the programme for the morning show Subhai Subhai from private producers which were found during the surprise check on May 18, 2009.
CBI had later seized these tapes and presented before the anti-corruption court which gave its nod to proceed ahead with investigations into the multi-crore scam. Out of 9591 segments, sources added that a majority of segments were supplied by various fraud banners and firms floated by the seven private producers. The cost of each segment was fixed at Rs 5000 for which a daily budget of Rs 50,000 and annual budget of Rs 1.80 Crores was allotted.
However, the cost of the segments purchased by the DDK officials was exceeding more than double the sanctioned budget, as a result of which DDK Srinagar had a liability of more than Rs 1.80 Crore in addition to Rs 1.80 Crores already spent in 2009.
Nearly eight segments are used per programme everyday and the large number of segments purchased were sufficient to run it for more than three years.
Sources said that a top DDK official used to issue hand written slips to his subordinate to accept these tapes and these slips were also recovered during the surprise check on June 10, 2009. |
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