Assam reluctant to allow CBI to probe scam’s root

Jan 28, 2011 - MANOJ ANAND |

GUWAHATI

The Assam government on Thursday claimed to have handed over all the nine cases of misappropriation relating the North Cachar Hills district to CBI for investigation but in an obvious attempt to defend the ministers and senior officials, the state government has not authorised the investigating agency to probe the “fund disbursed by the state” to the council.

Reacting to newspaper reports, also published by this newspaper on January 14, the state government clarified that they have referred nine cases of eight departments to the department of personnel and training for investigation by the CBI.
However, authoritative sources in the office of accountant-general and the CBI told this newspaper that state government was not subjecting “the fund released by the state government” to the council for investigation. Even the accountant-general was not given access to the records of the state government to trail the fund sanctioned by the state government to the district council.
“It is suspected that funds disbursed in the name of council to respective departments were withdrawn at the state capital instead of transferring it to Halflong, headquarters of N.C. Hills where only entry of these funds have been mentioned in the records of the council,” sources said.
Moreover, the CBI sources had also expressed its helplessness in nailing down the culprits without investigating the alleged scam from its root at the state headquarters from where these funds were released. Pointing out that they need to ascertain if the fund sanctioned by the state to the district council had really reached Halflong, the CBI sources said that investigation has revealed that district council on many occasions was forced to submit the utilisation certificate for all those transactions of fund, which ended at the state capital in the name of council.
The massive discrepancy in fund received by the council and sanctioned by the state government was also because of this practice, CBI sources said.

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