The police have lodged an FIR against Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO), Pataudi block, Gurugram, Arun Kumar, Chairman Block Committee Pataudi, Rakesh Yadav, Suresh Kumar, Mahender and others for allegedly siphoning off Rs 18,000 from Government funds.
According to the police, the committee chairman in connivance with the officials embezzled Government grants allocated for the road development works in Pataudi block of Gurugram district.
Before recommending the FIR, the deputy commissioner of police (Manesar) had conducted an inquiry into the corruption allegations.
According to the FIR, Road Rollers were to be used to fix the roads in the villages of Pataudi block but the block committee officials and government officials convinced to get the road rollers replaced with motorcycles in lieu of this project, Rs 18,000 was also withdrawn from government funds.
RTI activist Naresh Kumar came to know about this embezzlement and had asked for information under RTI from the block committee office of Pataudi in which three bills of copies were received from Block Committee Pataudi, in which the date of two bills was 28.5.2018 the date of a bill 6.3.2018 had been shown and after checking the Road Roller number HR 76C- 4748 in these bills, this number was registered as Honda Motorcycle, and the owner was Brahm Prakash.
Kumar complained to the station house officer (SHO) of Pataudi, on 8 November 2020 for action against the guilty but to no avail. Ultimately, he made a complaint on CM Window from there the complaint was sent to the SHO by ACP Pataudi for the investigation in which the SHO Pataudi found that Motorcycle instead of Rode Rollow citing it as a human error but later the DCP Manesar directed to ACP to register his complaint and investigate the matter.
The FIR has been registered under IPC sections 420, 409 and 120B at Pataudi police station.
"We have started a probe in the matter and further action will be taken out in accordance with the conclusion of the investigation report. No arrests had been made so far," said Karan Singh, SHO of Pataudi police station.