The Chhattisgarh Government on Tuesday announced that it had appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP), Anti Corruption Bureau and Economic Offence Wing S.R.P. Kalluri as Head of Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe alleged financial irregularities in the Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited.
The other members of SIT are — I Kalyan Elsela, SP, Narayanpur, Manoj Kumar Khilari, ASP, ACB, Raipur, Uneja Khatoon Ansari, ASP, Jashpur, Vishwas Chandrakar, Dy SP, EOW, Anil Bakshi, Dy SP, EOW, Raipur, L S Kashyap, Inspector, CID, Raipur, Brijesh Tiwari,Inspector, ACB, Raipur, Ramakant Sahu, Inspector, ACB, Raipur, Motilal Patel, Inspector, Kanker, Farhan Quereshi, Inspector, EOW, Raipur, N N Chaturvedi, Legal Expert and Retired Deputy Director.
The team will submit its report within three months.
The alleged scam was exposed in February, 2015 when ACB and EOW sleuths conducted simultaneous raids at 25 premises of Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited and residences of its officials.
During the raid, a 113-page diary (in which names of beneficiaries of the scam were mentioned) was allegedly recovered.
The Congress party had alleged then that the content of only six pages of the diary was covered in the probe while remaining 107 pages were skipped. The scam is of the size of Rs 36,000 crores, it had stated.