Transportation tenders: Punjab vigilance bureau arrests former cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu | Chandigarh News
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LUDHIANA: The vigilance bureau on Monday arrested former Punjab food, civil supplies and consumer affairs minister in the Congress government Bharat Bhushan Ashu in connection with the allotment of transportation tenders on the fake registration numbers of vehicles.
The bureau arrested Ashu days after his close aide Pankaj Meenu Malhotra was booked in this case.
On August 16, the vigilance bureau had registered a case against the owner, partners of Gurdas Ram and company, the officials of state food and civil supplies department and the employees of concerned procurement agencies for committing irregularities in accepting labour, cartage and transportation tenders for grain markets in Ludhiana district.
The bureau had also arrested accused proprietor Telu Ram of village Udhanwal, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in this matter.
Senior superintendent of police, vigilance bureau, Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu said, “Former cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been arrested in the case of allotting transportation tenders fraudulently.”
Ashu, along with other senior Congress leaders, on Monday morning had staged a protest outside the office of bureau in Mohali against the action of vigilance in this matter.
The bureau found that at the time of submitting tenders for the year 2020-21 with regard to labour, cartage and transportation works in Ludhiana district, the lists of vehicles submitted by the above mentioned contractors were containing registration numbers of scooters, motorcycles, cars and other vehicles, which were not verified by concerned officers of district tender committee due to criminal connivance with each other.
It added that as per policy of the department it was mandatory for the committee to reject the technical bid for the above mentioned reason but the same was not done.
Further, in gate passes pertaining to loading and unloading of food grains, the registration numbers of vehicles used for the carriage have been found to be of scooters, motorcycles, and cars as such vehicles cannot transport goods.
The details of the registration numbers of the said vehicles as well as the quantity of the commodity mentioned in these gate passes prima facie appear to be a case of fake reporting and embezzlement of the food grains mentioned in these gate passes.
On the basis of these gate passes the department officials have made payments to Telu Ram contractor, Jagroop Singh, partner of Gurdas Ram and Company and Sandeep Bhatia contractor without verifying the same.
In this regard, the bureau had registered a case for submitting and accepting fake documents, conniving with each other for committing misappropriation and fake transportation of goods.
The bureau arrested Ashu days after his close aide Pankaj Meenu Malhotra was booked in this case.
On August 16, the vigilance bureau had registered a case against the owner, partners of Gurdas Ram and company, the officials of state food and civil supplies department and the employees of concerned procurement agencies for committing irregularities in accepting labour, cartage and transportation tenders for grain markets in Ludhiana district.
The bureau had also arrested accused proprietor Telu Ram of village Udhanwal, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in this matter.
Senior superintendent of police, vigilance bureau, Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu said, “Former cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been arrested in the case of allotting transportation tenders fraudulently.”
Ashu, along with other senior Congress leaders, on Monday morning had staged a protest outside the office of bureau in Mohali against the action of vigilance in this matter.
The bureau found that at the time of submitting tenders for the year 2020-21 with regard to labour, cartage and transportation works in Ludhiana district, the lists of vehicles submitted by the above mentioned contractors were containing registration numbers of scooters, motorcycles, cars and other vehicles, which were not verified by concerned officers of district tender committee due to criminal connivance with each other.
It added that as per policy of the department it was mandatory for the committee to reject the technical bid for the above mentioned reason but the same was not done.
Further, in gate passes pertaining to loading and unloading of food grains, the registration numbers of vehicles used for the carriage have been found to be of scooters, motorcycles, and cars as such vehicles cannot transport goods.
The details of the registration numbers of the said vehicles as well as the quantity of the commodity mentioned in these gate passes prima facie appear to be a case of fake reporting and embezzlement of the food grains mentioned in these gate passes.
On the basis of these gate passes the department officials have made payments to Telu Ram contractor, Jagroop Singh, partner of Gurdas Ram and Company and Sandeep Bhatia contractor without verifying the same.
In this regard, the bureau had registered a case for submitting and accepting fake documents, conniving with each other for committing misappropriation and fake transportation of goods.
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