| Purchases made at exorbitant rates
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed charge-sheet against Dr. Hemla Aggarwal, the then Principal, Government SPMR College of Commerce Jammu (now retired), Jia Lal, the then Accounts Assistant at Government SPMR College of Commerce Jammu (now retired), in-service public servant namely Jagdish Kumar, son of Late Ishwar Dass, resident of Village Sagoon, PO Surinsar Tehsil & District Jammu, the then Storekeeper at Government SPMR College of Commerce, Jammu (now Senior Assistant), and (private beneficiaries) Sunil Malik M/S Sun Broadcast Equipments Pvt. Ltd, Bhavnish Sachdeva, the then Sr.Manager M/S Sun Broadcast Equipments Pvt. Ltd 2/5 West Patel Nagar, New Delhi and Vinay Kumar Thakur M/S Audio Video Centre 25 Palika Bazar, Cannaught Place Delhi before the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption Jammu in FIR 23/2014 registered in under section 5(1) (d) r/w 5 (2) J&K PC Act. Svt. 2006 and sections 120-B, 409, 468, 471 RPC.
The case was registered on August 16, 2014 on the basis of outcome of a verification conducted by Vigilance Organization (now ACBJ) to enquire into the allegations regarding purchases made by Prof Hemla Aggarwal, the then Principal Commerce College Jammu at exorbitant rates.
During verification it was revealed that Prof. Hemla Aggarwal, Principal Commerce College Jammu has shown purchases of softwares for I-Mac System namely Final Cut Plugging, Edius 4 Canopus and Adobe Master Collection CS3 for amount of Rs. 78,000/-, Rs. 46,800/- and Rs. 1,40,400/- respectively. However, during verification it came to fore that the above mentioned software were neither requisitioned nor found loaded in I-Mac System.
Moreover, three (03) CDs CS3 (compact dics) software namely final cut plugging, Edius 4 Canopus and Adobe Master Collection CS3 were not found available.
During investigation, it came to fore that all accused persons are part of the conspiracy hatched by main accused Prtof Hemla Aggarwal, the then Principal SPMR College Jammu who got prepared bills for the hardware and softwares already in her possession and drawn/disbursed the payment from government funds causing loss to the state exchequer.
The investigation conducted has prima facie established the offences under section 5(1) (d) r/w 5 (2) J&K PC Act. Svt. 2006 and sections 120-B, 409, 468, 471 RPC against above mentioned accused persons. After completing the investigation of case, sanction for launching of prosecution of the accused in-service public servant namely Jagdish Kumar the then Storekeeper at Government SPMR College of Commerce, Jammu (now Senior Assistant) was also obtained from the competent authority.
Anti-Corruption Bureau J&K produced charge sheet against these accused persons before the Court of Spl. Judge Anti-Corruption Jammu. The next date of hearing has been fixed for July 14, 2021.