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Karnataka-Bangalore
By Divya Sreedharan
The blacklist was prepared in August 2001 when there was only one Vigilance wing, headed by a DIG. Two years on, there are four electricity supply companies (Escoms) carved out of KPTCL, one DIG (Vigilance) at KPTCL, four SPs (Vigilance) at the Escoms, and a separate Revenue Leakage Prevention and Revenue Protection wing for the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) alone. No one, however, seems to know what happened to that list or whether any steps have been taken against the employees on the basis of it. One of the accused, Sambaji Gadakari, lineman in Belgaum, had as many as eight cases against him. The list was a three-year compilation of names. There were 13 persons from Bangalore, and the others were from Belgaum, Hubli, the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, Uttara Kannada etc. Most of the accused belonged to the lineman and meter reader cadre. Prominent in the in-house list was a lineman in Ramnagaram with seven cases of power theft, a meter reader in Harihar also with seven cases, and a store keeper in Hubli with five cases against him. Another case was that of an Assistant Executive Engineer (Nelamangala Division). He was chargesheeted along with Sanjay Khan in an alleged case of power theft at Mr. Khan's resort-cum-Spa near Nelamangala. Since the Government has withdrawn the case against Mr. Khan, the others in the chargesheet have also been let off. When The Hindu tried to contact the KPTCL DIG (Vigilance), N.R.Nadumani, he refused to talk. He had earlier said that his job was to "co-ordinate activities between Escoms and KPTCL, and to investigate charges of corruption against employees." But now, he stated that "... All responses must be given by the Managing Director, KPTCL. Give a request in writing and I will issue a press note," he said. Attempts to contact the Managing Director, KPTCL, K.N.Srivastava, did not succeed. Sources in Bescom (Vigilance), however, said they did not know about the list. Since KPTCL had been split, cases against employees from various divisions would go to the Escom concerned, they pointed out. Bescom (Vigilance) had not filed chargesheet against any employee. But soon after the company was formed in June 2002, an employee (not part of the blacklist) was "summarily dismissed" for meter tampering, they added.
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