SRINAGAR – Crime Branch of police on Friday carried raids at several places in various districts in connection with major scam in Jammu & Kashmir Projects Construction Corp (JKPCC).
Crime Branch said that it conducted searches at eight locations across the various districts of UT of Jammu and Kashmir including Srinagar, Jammu, Shopian, Kupwara and Ganderbal.
“These searches were conducted in connection with the investigation of Case FIR 02/2020 U/S 468, 471, 120 B IPC, 5(2) PC Act of Police Station, Crime Branch, Kashmir.
It is pertinent to state that this FIR has been registered on account of misappropriation/embezzlement in various works carried out by JKPCC Unit 10th, which has led to huge financial loss to the Government Exchequer,” an official statement said.
The searches were carried out in the houses of Dileep Thusu the then Managing Director JKPCC, of Laxman Villa Lane No 02 Ashok Nagar Bhagwati Nagar Jammu, Vikar Mustafa Shuntho, the then Managing Director JKPCC of Hilal Abad Qamarwari Srinagar, Mohammad Abbas Lone, the then Deputy General Manager JKPCC Unit 10 Kupwara, of Watoo Shopian at present Jeelan Abad Peerbagh, Shabir Ahmad Najar, the then Deputy General Manager JKPCC Unit 10 Kupwara, of Kani Mazzar Srinagar at present HIG Colony Bemina.
The searches were also conducted at the houses of Mohammad Sideeq Mala the then Deputy General Manager JKPCC Unit 10th Kupwara of Harran Ganderbal, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat J.E JKPCC Unit 10th Kupwara of Sogam Lolab Kupwara at present Tangpora Byepass Srinagar.
During the searches, incriminating material has been seized as per procedure established which is being examined in the case, the statement read.
The probe was ordered amid numerous complaints about the functioning of JKPCC, particularly relating to corruption in civil contracts, illegality in appointments at multiple levels and excessive cost and time overruns. The probe followed the appointment of a fact finding committee by the government to look into all these allegations.
The committee, as per the government, looked into the manner of awarding contracts to contractors often on a nomination basis without following transparent tendering procedures, diverting funds from one project to another leading to a large number of incomplete projects.
Apart from these, the committee also looked into irregularities in appointments at various levels, including that of the Managing Director, inefficiency in functioning and huge time and cost overruns in project implementation, reasons for estimates for construction being much higher than those of the PWD. It had submitted a voluminous report bringing out in detail large irregularities in the operation of the JKPCC and recommended on improving the corporation, a government spokesman had said at the time of announcing the Crime Branch probe.
Pertinently, Thusoo, was promoted as MD JKPCC by government in 2008 and year later, he was attached to GAD by Omar Abdullah regime for allegedly providing wrong information to the Chief Minister. Few months later Thusoo was again reinstated and appointed as Managing Director JK Housing Board. He was later given charge of Secretary Sports Council. Subsequently, the then PDP-BJP government again reinstated Thusoo as MD JKPCC.
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