The MCD has told the Delhi high court that there were no ghost employees on its payroll and accused the media of raising a non-existent scam.
Filing an affidavit in the high court, MCD commissioner, K.S. Mehra, said, “Since only 79,559 employees were found enrolled on the biometric attendance system, the gap of 22, 853 was noticed and the same was termed as ghost employees by a section of the media despite the fact that this was merely the gap in figures which could have been attributed to many reasons as all the employees were not marking their attendance through the biometric system. Therefore, certain gap in the numbers was inevitable.”
The bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra will now take note of the MCD’s reply on August 4. The court is hearing a PIL filed by Jagrook Welfare Society seeking a CBI probe into the scam.