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Staff Report
Srinagar, Dec 10
A former director of Geology and Mining among 4 charged for purchasing low quality Rig machine worth crores of rupees.
The Crime Branch Kashmir Friday filed chargesheet before a court here against former Director Geology and Mining Department J&K for inducting Rig Machine in the department despite field reports about its unsatisfactory performance.
The crime branch had filed a case FIR No: 12/2011 in 2011 under section 5(1)d, 5(2) PC Act Samvat Act 2006 r/w 120-B RPC against four accused persons Ishtiaq Ahmad Ashai, former Director Geology and Mining Department J&K, of Ibrahim Colony Parraypora Srinagar, Ashok Dhar, Senior Drilling Engineer of Trikuta Nagar Jammu, Mushtaq Ahmad Kirmani, former Technical Officer to the Director, of Parimpora Srinagar and S Rama Krishnan, former General Manager Marketing M/S Revathi Equipment Ltd. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu for faulty purchase.
A Crime Branch official said that the accused abused their official positions and through “criminal misconduct (they) got the rig machine inducted in the department of Geology and Mining J&K despite the field reports that the machine had not performed satisfactorily as per the laid down specifications when put to series of test checks,”
Earlier the case was registered following a communication from the Administrative Department of Commerce J&K alleging that the Directorate of Geology and Mining J&K had purchased DTH Hydraulically Operated Concentric Drilling Rig from M/S Revathi Equipments Coimbatore Tamil Nadu and the machine had not performed satisfactorily in a series of tests and checks.
“During the course of investigation, it was proved that the accused persons by abusing their official positions under a well knit criminal conspiracy with the supplier firm facilitated and released the cost of machine in crores in favor of the Supply Firm by not conducting the test checks of the machine as per the specifications enshrined in the supply order. This has been done with dishonest intention, thereby causing loss to the State Exchequer,” officials said.