Fresh Case Filed In Maharashtra Irrigation Rip-off, 5 Officials Named
Another FIR has been registered in Maharashtra irrigation rip-off.
Nagpur:
Another FIR, naming 5 Maharashtra govt officers, used to be registered on Wednesday via the Nagpur unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) within the multi-crore irrigation rip-off.
5 officers of Vidarbha Irrigation Building Company (VIDC), a few of them now retired, have been booked below the Prevention of Corruption Act on the Sadar police station in Nagpur, an ACB observation stated on past due Wednesday night time.
The accused have been recognized via the ACB because the then Government Engineer of VIDC Keshav Chandrakant Tayde; the then Superintendent Engineer Sanjay Laxman Kholapurkar; the then Leader Engineer (retd) Sopan Ramrao Suryawanshi; the then Government Director (retd) Rohidas Maroti Landge; senior Divisional Accountant (Gosikhurd) Dhanraj Atmaram Anandagawali.
The ACB stated those officers had illegally larger the price of comfortable of the Gosikhurd proper canal in Bhandara district via Rs eight.5 crore.
In a similar way, the officers had now not taken the consent of then VIDC Government Director, primarily based at Mantralaya (state secretariat) in Mumbai and themselves licensed the escalated value, the observation stated.
The rip-off, pegged at round Rs 70,000 crore, pertains to alleged corruption and irregularities in approval and execution of more than a few irrigation initiatives in Maharashtra all over the Congress-Nationalist Congress Birthday party rule (1999-2014).
A couple of FIRs in opposition to irrigation division officers had been filed previously.
