In a fresh development in the multi-crore Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Corporation corruption scam, the Economic Offenses Wing (EoW) has received the permission for prosecuting the 12 officers of the Department on Thursday.
“We have received the permission for prosecution of 12 officers of State Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Corporation Department,” Superintendent of Police (SP), Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Rajnesh Singh informed.
Notably, officials and employees of State Civil Supplies Corporation and an official of the State Warehousing Corporation were held following the recovery of unaccounted cash and disproportionate assets to the tune of crores of rupees from their offices and houses in the month of February this year.
The arrested persons include Manager of Civil Supply Corporation, Raipur Headquarters Shivshankar Bhatt, Raipur District Manager Teekamdas Heerchandani, Junior Technical Assistant (Raigarh district) Kshirsagar Patel, Junior Technical Assistant (Jagdalpur district headquarter) Satish Kumar Kaivartya, Bilaspur District Manager Kaushal Kishore Yadu, Company Secretary Sandeep Agrawal, Surajpur district Manager (In-charge) RN Singh, Kanker District Manager Ashok Soni, Assistant Accounts Officer, Raipur Sudhir Kumar Bhole and Branch Manager of State Warehousing Corporation (Balod district) Dilip Kumar Sharma.
Two contractual employees- RP Pathak and Devendra Singh Kushwaha (Assistant managers, Quality) also figured among the arrested ones whose services have been terminated.
Notably, on February 12 and 13 this year teams of ACB and EOW had carried out concurrent raids at 25 premises of the Civil Supply Department and its officials across the State and had recovered unaccounted cash to the tune of crores of rupees.
According to the State government, cash amounting to Rs3,64,63,320 and unaccounted assets worth Rs2,74,10,620 was seized from the officials of the Department.
Subsequently, eighteen officials and employees of state’s Civil Supplies Department were suspended while services of two contractual employees of the Department were terminated in this connection. Besides, an officer of the State Warehousing Corporation was also suspended.