Former Jharkhand Minister and Independent MLA from Jamshedpur East, Saryu Roy has approached the Jharkhand High Court (HC) demanding an inquiry into the Meinhardt scam. Roy has filed a criminal writ in the High Court and has demanded a probe into the entire matter.
Roy has also attached many documents in his petition. The Anti-Corruption Bureau has been made a party in the petition. Sharing this information, Roy has written on his twitter wall that he has filed a writ petition in the Jharkhand High Court against the Government not taking further action despite the charges being proved in the investigation of the Meinhardt scam, despite the counter statements of many accused including the main accused. The petition is awaited for hearing.
It may be mentioned here that Independent MLA Roy has also raised the issue of Meinhardt during the Jharkhand Assembly session held last year.
He said that after the formation of a separate State of Jharkhand, a petition was filed in the High Court by some social worker of Ranchi, in which the court had given an important order in 2003. “In this, the State Government was asked to develop a sewerage-drainage system in the capital Ranchi as well. After that order, according to the order of the then Urban Development Minister, Bachcha Singh, two consultants were selected by taking out the tender to reinstate the consultant. But in the meantime the government changed. In 2005, Raghbar Das was made the Urban Development Minister in the Arjun Munda Government. He called a meeting on August 31 to finalize the DPR. Then it was decided that the already selected consultant should be removed. Later this matter also went to the High Court,” he added.
According to the allegations, about Rs 21 crore was spent on this, but no work was done on the ground. It was also investigated but no action was taken on the inquiry report. There is an allegation of irregularity in the Meinhardt who was appointed as a consultant to prepare the DPR for the sewerage-drainage construction in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand.