CBI books 2 agri dept officers over harvester machine supply
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:20.09.2019
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chennai, has registered a case of cheating and forgery against two officials from the agriculture department in Salem and the administrative director of a firm supplying harvester machines based on a complaint by a farmer, who was allegedly cheated of ₹19.39 lakh while purchasing a machine.
The case was registered on Wednesday by the anticorruption branch of CBI based on the Madras high court’s direction. The complaint was earlier rejected by a judicial magistrate in Attur. The high court suspects that the officials may have colluded to swindle the public exchequer and ordered a CBI probe.
According to the complainant V Ramakrishnan, a resident of Attur taluk in Salem, the assistant executive engineer of the agricultural engineering department, assistant engineer and the administrative director of South East Farm equipments Pvt Ltd in Salem cheated him.
Ramakrishnan said that in 2010-11 he had submitted an application at the agriculture department office for purchasing a paddy harvester machine. The application was scrutinised by the assistant executive engineer and it was accepted as it fulfilled the criteria.
The office later issued a supply order with a conditional clause that the machine was to be supplied within 15 days. The cost of the machine was ₹19.39 lakh. Of this, ₹15.39 lakh was paid to the South East Farm Equipments Pvt Ltd and the balance amount of ₹4 lakh was to be paid as a subsidy by the agricultural engineering department to the company, Ramakrishnan said. However, the company did not supply the machine as on date, Ramakrishnan alleged.
The trio have been accused of preparing a fake invoice by using a machine and chassis number which was purchased by Ramakrishnan earlier and swindling ₹4 lakh. He also stated that ₹15.39 lakh was not repaid to him and he did not get the paddy harvester machine as well.
The case was booked on Wednesday by the anti-corruption branch of CBI, Chennai, based on the Madras high court’s direction
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:20.09.2019
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chennai, has registered a case of cheating and forgery against two officials from the agriculture department in Salem and the administrative director of a firm supplying harvester machines based on a complaint by a farmer, who was allegedly cheated of ₹19.39 lakh while purchasing a machine.
The case was registered on Wednesday by the anticorruption branch of CBI based on the Madras high court’s direction. The complaint was earlier rejected by a judicial magistrate in Attur. The high court suspects that the officials may have colluded to swindle the public exchequer and ordered a CBI probe.
According to the complainant V Ramakrishnan, a resident of Attur taluk in Salem, the assistant executive engineer of the agricultural engineering department, assistant engineer and the administrative director of South East Farm equipments Pvt Ltd in Salem cheated him.
Ramakrishnan said that in 2010-11 he had submitted an application at the agriculture department office for purchasing a paddy harvester machine. The application was scrutinised by the assistant executive engineer and it was accepted as it fulfilled the criteria.
The office later issued a supply order with a conditional clause that the machine was to be supplied within 15 days. The cost of the machine was ₹19.39 lakh. Of this, ₹15.39 lakh was paid to the South East Farm Equipments Pvt Ltd and the balance amount of ₹4 lakh was to be paid as a subsidy by the agricultural engineering department to the company, Ramakrishnan said. However, the company did not supply the machine as on date, Ramakrishnan alleged.
The trio have been accused of preparing a fake invoice by using a machine and chassis number which was purchased by Ramakrishnan earlier and swindling ₹4 lakh. He also stated that ₹15.39 lakh was not repaid to him and he did not get the paddy harvester machine as well.
The case was booked on Wednesday by the anti-corruption branch of CBI, Chennai, based on the Madras high court’s direction
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