Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 23: The Vigilance Organization Kashmir has booked the then BMO Beerwah during the period 2008-11 and others for misappropriation of Government money meant for salary of employees and implementation of different schemes.
A case FIR number 26/2014 P/S VOK has been registered under Section 5(1)(c), read with 5(2) J&K PC Act 2006, Section 120-B, RPC against Fayaz Ahmad Banday, the then BMO Beerwah, Mushtaq Ahmad Parray, then Cashier, Zahoor Ahgmad Banday, then Pharmacist and Zahoor Ahmad Shah, then Treasury Officer Beerwah.
These public servants managed to get fake and fictitious bills processed and shown disbursed on account of salary, GPF and arrears in the name of staff members who were either posted in the said Block or were non existent. The amount was credited in the official account of the said BMO and subsequently misappropriated and embezzled by transferring and crediting the amount in the personal accounts of Cashier and Pharmacist through cheques.
It has also surfaced during the verification, that a huge amount of hospital generation fund received on account of OPD tickets, fee for conducting tests and X-Rays received from Sub-District Hospital Beerwah and other Health Centres of the Block has also been misappropriated.
The verification further revealed that the amount received during the year 2009 by the hospital on account of wages of consolidated daily wagers have also been misappropriated by the BMO and his staff by manipulating the records, thereby causing heavy loss to the State exchequer.
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