Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A massive scam has taken place in the name of relief distribution against natural calamity in twenty identified districts.
In every district there are numerous cases wherein financial irregularities have been committed. In some cases, recovery has been done from guilty officers.
The cases of financial irregularity in relief work took place in Narsinghpur, Mandsaur, Vidisha, Satna, Bhind, Sheopur, Damoh, Panna, Maihar, Narmadapuram, Seoni, Khandwa, Khargone, Sehore, Dewas, Chhatarpur, Neemuch, Agar-Malwa and Shivpuri districts, etc. This was recently informed in the assembly by Revenue Minister Karan Singh Verma.
Financial irregularity was detected in three tehsils of Khargone district namely Bhagwanpura, Gogawa and Bhikangaon. In Bhagwanpura, financial irregularity of ₹15,25,072 was found followed by financial irregularity of ₹16,20,938 in Gogawa and ₹25,71,388 in Bhikangaon.
The recoverable sum was taken from concerned officers and deposited in government fund. The guilty officers were suspended thereafter. In Ichawar tehsil of Sehore district, financial irregularity of ₹63,58,894 was detected in 26 cases. In this connection, a case was filed against the registered patwari and clerk.
In twenty cases of Dewas district, financial irregularity of Rs 1,53,17,538 was detected from the period between 2018 till 2021-22. In this connection, action was taken against 20 officials including 18 patwaris and two clerks and they were sacked from their job. Later,
₹1,47,97,273 was recovered from the concerned officers. As far as Raisen district is concerned, from year 2018-19 till 2020-21, financial irregularity of ₹70,60,979 has been detected.
In the year 2017-18, two patwaris in Maihar district did scam of ₹12,09,300 in the name of distributing drought relief. Government recovered the sum from them with 12 per cent interest.
In Seoni district’s Keolari tehsil, it was found that ₹11.64 crore was deposited into the accounts of unauthorised people in cases of snake bite and drowning incidents. Later magisterial probe established that payment of ₹10.92 crore was done through suspicious vendors.
