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There has been a strong diplomatic stir in the political and administrative corridors of the state regarding the salary withdrawal scam of about Rs 35 to 40 crore in the Jharkhand Police Department. Taking strong cognizance of this mega-scam, State Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore has given strict orders to immediately crack down on the concerned Withdrawal and Disbursement Officers (DDOs).
The Minister has written a strong letter to the Additional Chief Secretary of the Home, Jail and Disaster Management Department and directed that all the DDO level officers found suspicious in the preliminary investigation should be removed from their posts with immediate effect and transferred elsewhere.
“DDO is directly responsible”: Finance Minister
Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore has diplomatically clarified in his letter that DDOs are directly responsible for the withdrawal of government funds. Based on the report of the High Level Investigation Committee and the cases registered, the guilty officers posted in the districts where this cult fraud has come to light, have no moral right to continue in office.
The Minister has also directed that it should be thoroughly investigated whether any officer currently involved in the CID investigation of the case has previously held the post of DDO in these affected districts or not.
Cultivated investigation is going on in these 6 districts of Jharkhand
According to the Finance Minister’s letter, money has been illegally withdrawn from the government treasury on a large scale in six major districts of the state under salary head. The major districts among these are as follows:
Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar, Chaibasa and Khunti.
The Chief Minister has also taken a very strict stand on this serious fraud. On the diplomatic instructions of the Chief Minister, a high level inquiry committee A comprehensive investigation into the matter has been formed and an FIR has also been lodged in the police stations of the respective districts.
Mastermind Kaushal Pandey on 72 hours CID remand, ‘money trail’ will open
Kaushal Pandey, the main architect of this entire salary scam and former accountant of Bokaro, has been taken on 72 hours police remand by the CID SIT on Tuesday. As soon as the remand was received, the CID team brought him to the CID headquarters for questioning under tight security.
CID’s diplomatic investigation so far has made many shocking cult revelations related to this scam:
400 bank accounts identified: The investigating agency has so far 14 major and about 400 such bank accounts have been frozen and identified, in which money was transferred after illegal withdrawal by Kaushal Pandey (money trail).
Interrogation by sitting face to face: CID’s SIT has sent notices to all those account holders in whose accounts huge amount was sent. From Wednesday, these account holders and mastermind Kaushal Pandey will be made to sit face to face and will be strictly interrogated, so that it can be known why money was sent to these accounts and which white-collared people are involved in this gang.
How the scam was carried out: Kaushal Pandey, who was an accountant in Bokaro, first committed diplomatic fraud and made fake withdrawal of crores of rupees from the salary head of an inspector. After this, his courage became so high that he blatantly embezzled government money by opening fake accounts including TA, DA and other allowances and even in the name of the SP of the district. He was arrested after an FIR was registered in Bokaro Steel City police station, the investigation of which has now spread to 6 districts of the entire state.
