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MCD Deputy Commissioner arrested

NEW DELHI: A former Social Welfare Department Joint Director, who is presently MCD Deputy Commissioner, has been arrested along with two superintendents of children’s homes by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi Government for allegedly conniving with a supplier to fraudulently award tenders to a cooperative agency for procurement of various articles.

Those arrested are Sanjay Gihar, the former Joint Director now posted as MCD Deputy Commissioner Shahdara (South Zone); M. J. N. Tudu, the then Superintendent of Asha Kiran Complex for Mentally Retarded Children at Rohini; and P. Anand Rao, the then Superintendent of Children Home for Boys at Narela and Beggars’ Home at Lampur. Those arrested earlier in the case are supplier Ravi Goyal; Superintendent of Asha Kiran Complex Vimla Chaudhary, District Officer R.P. Singh and the then Deputy Superintendent of Place of Safety at Majnu Ka Tila Rajeshwari Chauhan.

The Anti-Corruption Branch received complaints from non-government organisations, Pratidhi and Kushth Ashadeep Federation, alleging that huge purchases of sub-standard items at unreasonably higher rates were being made through a cooperative agency, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India, at the centres on the basis of forged documents. They alleged that forged quotations of agencies like Kendriya Bhandar, Delhi Khadi Village Board and Delhi Consumer Cooperative Store were used to show the prices quoted by NAFED to be the lowest.

Raaj Mangal Prasad of Pratidhi said: “We got information about the fraud by filing about 150 applications under the Right to Information Act. The fraud pertains to two financial years, 2006-07 and 2007-08,involving nine of the two-dozen institutions. In one case, we found that the Department had spent Rs.42 lakh on just seven children in a year.”

The agency found that in a particular case Kendriya Bhandar had originally quoted the rate of Rs.67 per pyjama, but in the fake quotation it was shown as Rs.162 and the supply order was awarded to NAFED at Rs.160 per pyjama. Additional Commissioner of Police (Anti-Corruption Branch) N. Dilip Kumar said on Friday: “This happened with each of the items as the price quoted by NAFED would be the lowest.”

Based on the findings, the Anti-Corruption Branch registered a case on June 27 and arrested Ravi Goyal, who had allegedly been running the entire show.

The Anti-Corruption Branch is now investigating the role of certain NAFED officials in the scam.

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