FIR against liquor vendors for excise tax evasion

Munger: An FIR was lodged with the Kotwali police station after a case of misappropriation of government revenue to the tune of Rs 29.45 lakh by liquor vendors in the fiscal 2010-11 and 2011-12 came to light. The case was lodged by district excise superintendent Pramodit Narayan Singh on the orders of district magistrate UK Singh.
The excise superintendent alleged that the amount accrued from excise taxes against the sale of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) through authorised licensed outlets were actually not deposited in the government account by the licensees.The counterfoils of deposits were found to be fake with fake treasury challan and forged signature of treasury officer. The stamps on the deposit receipts were also found to be fake.
“This embezzlement surfaced following an audit conducted by the finance department for the fiscal 2010-2011 and 2011-12. The DM was informed in the last week of August,” said sources adding the DM after perusal of the audit report, directed the excise superintendent to file FIR against the vendors who had committed alleged fraud.
The Kotwali police lodged an FIR against IMFL vendors including Manoj Kumar Soni (Jamalpur),Vijay Kumar (Munger), Majid Ahmed (Munger), Parshuram Yadav (Dharhara), Pankaj Kumar (Mednichouki), Dharmendra Yadav (Munger), Krishna Kumar(Munger), Ravindra Prasad Yadav (Jamalpur), Sanjiv Lochan (Munger), Anil Mandal (Bariarpur), Satyam Kumar (Munger), Shambhu Yadav(Sangrampur) and D Mandal.
Kotwali PS SHO Manoj Kumar Sinha on Monday said SDPO (sadar) Lalit Mohan Sharma has been made the investigating officer of the case.
Meanwhile, sources added, in 2014 also a case of embezzlement of government revenue in the excise department was lodged in which one of the staff of the department committed suicide before the investigation concluded.