CBI books shelter contractor for billing DUSIB with fake staff
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a company contracted for the management of night shelters by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) for allegedly inflating bills by showing bogus employees on its rolls.
The agency has named Suhail Khan, president of Sofia Educational and Welfare Society, and others in an FIR after receiving a complaint that DUSIB was billed excessively by showing as employees people who were either employed elsewhere or engaged in other professions and businesses.
“Tenders related to the operation and management of night shelters under DUSIB were fraudulently awarded to NGOs/Shelter Management Agency, and that wrongful gains were made by engaging a number of bogus employees in records who, in reality, never worked. “This resulted in wrongful loss to the Government exchequer, as salary bills of such bogus employees were reimbursed by DUSIB, Delhi Government,” the FIR alleged.
“Verification of their professional engagements and mobile location data established that they were present at their actual workplaces or residences and not at any night shelter during the period for which attendance and salary were shown,” the FIR alleged.
The CBI alleged that attendance records were being maintained and submitted by supervisory staff, however, bogus names were inserted in attendance registers at the office level after submission.
“It was further found that such individuals were never seen working at the night shelters by other staff or residents.
“The existence of these bogus employees was also corroborated by multiple employees and residents of the night shelters, thereby confirming large-scale falsification of records and fraudulent disbursement of salaries,” the agency said.
