Saxena has accorded approval under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) for registration of case against executive engineer.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has accorded permission to Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) for registration of a case against an executive engineer of PWD of the GNCTD for allegedly misusing the official position and power in criminal conspiracy with other officers of the department, contractor and his firm for pecuniary gains in a road construction work.
Saxena has accorded approval under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) for registration of case against executive engineer, Mool Chand, for “causing undue loss” to the government exchequer in the work of strengthening of road at Guru Harkishan Marg from Britannia Chowk of Outer Ring Road at West Enclave, the LG office said on Friday.
“A complaint filed on May 19, 2017 alleged that the payments were made to the contractor Mohd Iqbal, owner of M/s MHA Construction Pvt Ltd without proper verification of work at the site, as no work was undertaken, rather it has been just a paper exercise,” it said.
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It was also alleged that the work of strengthening of road no 43 Guru Harkishan Marg was awarded for Rs 11,59,66,020 which was 24.31 per cent below the estimated cost of Rs 15,32,11,811 to the contractor and was to be executed between December 20, 2013 and July 9, 2014. However, the work was never carried out and was fraudulently shown to be completed on April 10, 2015.
The LG office further said in the same matter, the ACB had after conducting the preliminary enquiry, registered a complaint against other PWD officers – Ajay Kumar, Amar Singh (assistant engineers), Sunit Singh and Narender Kumar (junior engineers) – against whom the LG had earlier accorded permission for registration of case under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The matter pertaining to Mool Chand, who is an executive engineer belonging to Group A category of government servants was sent to the LG for approval through the National Capital Civil Services Authority (NCCSA) , which is the competent authority in case of such officers, it added.
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