Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests girl accused in embezzlement of housing grant meant for homeless
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Friday arrested an accused Charan Kaur of village Goure, district Kapurthala for misappropriating a grant of Rs. 45,000 in colluding with others out of complete central grant of Rs. 13,50,000 obtained by Gram Panchayat Mehmedwal, district Kapurthala within the 12 months 2012 which was sanctioned for the poor and homeless underneath Indira Awas Yojana. She was absconding for the final 4 years on this case.
It’s price mentioning that out of the overall 132 accused concerned on this case registered six years in the past, 117 accused had already been arrested up to now and the seek for the remaining accused was underneath progress.
Disclosing this right here in the present day a spokesperson of the VB stated out the overall central grant of Rs 13,50,000 obtained by Gram Panchayat Mehmedwal within the 12 months 2012 underneath the Indira Awas Yojana for the poor and homeless, the then ADC Growth-cum-Chief Government Officer Zila Parishad, Kapurthala Satish Chander Vashist in connivance with Asa Singh Sarpanch of village Mehmedwal and Kulwant Singh, Panchayat Secretary, had embezzled the grant by cheques by issuing them within the identify of ineligible beneficiaries.
He knowledgeable that in a while the advice of Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala, a five-member committee comprising numerous officers carried out a bodily verification relating to utilisation of this grant, throughout which it was discovered that unlawful funds to the tune of Rs. 1,80,00,000 had been made to 411 ineligible beneficiaries of 31 villages in Kapurthala district throughout the 12 months 2011-12.
On this regard, the VB had registered a case no. 01 dated 03-02-17 towards 132 accused individuals underneath sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the IPC and part 13(1), 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act at Vigilance Bureau police station Jalandhar vary. On this case, the accused Charan Kaur, resident of village Goure, district Kapurthala was nominated on 04-02-2019 after investigation, who has been arrested in the present day.
The spokesperson knowledgeable that the above stated accused Charan Kaur, being an ineligible beneficiary had usurped the central grant of Rs. 45,000 in connivance with Sukhwinder Singh, Sarpanch of village Goure and Kulwant Singh, Panchayats Secretary, by two checks on 14-03-2012.