The CBI has opened an investigation in opposition to a former Prasar Bharati official and different unknown individuals in relation to alleged submission of fraudulent payments for lodging and travelling allowance (TA).
The probe in opposition to the assistant director (programme) of Prasar Bharati and others comes on the instructions of the Lokpal.
The Lokpal judgement
In keeping with Lokpal judgment in January, it was alleged in a grievance obtained by them that ”the accused public servant had carried out a number of home, overseas excursions, submitted faux resort payments and TA payments and had claimed an quantity which is in extra of the particular quantity spent by him. Particulars of the alleged faux payments in addition to the precise payments throughout his tour to Delhi from Doordarshan Kendra (DDK), Pune, for the interval July 2016 to June 2017, had been submitted within the grievance. Throughout this era, he was on official excursions for 301 days in the course of the calendar 12 months January to December 2016 and for 331 days within the calendar 12 months January to December 2017.”
”Throughout his excursions to Delhi from DDK Pune for the mentioned interval, he claimed faux transport costs of a number of hundred rupees per day and in addition submitted faux meals payments in opposition to his TA/DA claims. He claimed many bogus TA payments from Doordarshan Headquarters, New Delhi, and Doordarshan Kendra, Mumbai. He went on many overseas excursions for the protection of sports activities occasions wherein a number of irregularities similar to claiming of double TA/DA and taking unauthorized detours, happened,” the judgment acknowledged.
The general public servant in a submission given to the Lokpal in September final 12 months had denied that faux payments have been submitted and mentioned the grievance was a malicious try and spoil his popularity.
”Contemplating the totality of the info and circumstances of the case, your entire materials on report, the preliminary inquiry report, the pleadings and feedback of the general public servant and the views of the competent authority, we’re of the thought-about view that the allegations substantiated by the preliminary inquiry report relating to submission of faux and fraudulent payments for lodging and TA by the involved respondent public servant are severe sufficient to direct an investigation into the matter. Accordingly, we assign the matter to the CBI, to hold out an investigation as expeditiously as potential and full the identical inside six months from the receipt of this order, with intimation to the Lokpal of India,” the judgment additional acknowledged.