Raipur: The Raigarh police have got a major success
in arresting two people including paddy procurement center president and fund-in
charge for alleged embezzlement of Rs 2.99 crore and irregularities in paddy
procurement work of the state government.
As per police sources, after 11 days long search operation,
the special team constituted by Raigarh SP finally arrested the accused Ulkhar
society president Raju Nishad in Chitrakoot (UP), who had been dodging the
Sarangarh police for the last 11 days. Another of his associates, Ulkhar
Society's fund in-charge Damrudhar Chandra has been arrested from Janjgir.
Ulkhar and Bardula Procurement Center manager Ashok
Kumar Chandra, Chairman Raju Nishad, Vice President Bharat Lal Sahu, fund
in-charge Ulkhar Damrudhar Chandra, and fund in-charge Bardula Shivkumar Sahu
were indulged in alleged irregularities in the allocated work including gunny
sacks embezzlement, misuse of security expenditure and the relevant
expenditure, not maintaining proper records and embezzled the total amount of
Rs 2.99 crore.
On the complaint of Sarangarh food inspector Ravi
Kumar Raj, a case was registered in the Sarangarh police station under relevant
sections of IPC. Taking the matter of causing loss to the government and administration
seriously, Raigarh SP Santosh Kumar Singh formed a special team comprising of Sarangarh
police and cyber cell officials to investigate the case. One team was located
in the headquarters who was tracing the accused locations and reporting the
same to the field team.
Accused Raju Nishad was continuously changing his
location in Raipur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Lucknow, Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh)
for the last 11 days. During this, 37 different SIM cards have been used and
the accused was hiding in a hotel in Chitrakoot using fake identity proof. Both
the accused will be sent on immediate remand.
The police are conducting continuous raids to arrest
other accused and further investigations are underway. Besides, FIR is also
being registered on other such societies and the accused will be sent to jail
following receipt of the evidence.
