16Animal Husbandry, Dumka <strong>by</strong> Rameshwar Choudhury, the then Head Clerkof that office in connivance with Dr. Shesh Muni Ram. RameshwarChoudhury also prepared some of these fake sub-allotment letters knowingfully well the fake nature of those letters and was in turn signed <strong>by</strong> Dr. S.M.Ram. Dr. Shesh Muni Ram procured relevant documents related with thefraudulent withdrawals made <strong>by</strong> the DDOs including DAHO, Sahebganj onthe false plea of PAC enquiry and caused disappearance of some of thosedocuments. Investigation further discloses that during 1995-96 to fakeallotment letters were used. Both the fake allotment letters were prepared asper the direction of Dr. S.B. Sinha and he himself distributed those fakeletters among the DDOs of his choice. The fake allotment letter No. 3969dated 26.7.95 and 3971 dated 26.7.95 shown above in the chart were signed<strong>by</strong> <strong>Sri</strong> Braj Bhushan Prasad and dispatch Nos. on these were written <strong>by</strong>Mahendra Prasad. DEQD opinion is positive in this regard.Thus, against genuine allotment of Rs. 1,55,000=00 receivedvide five genuine allotment letters during 1991-92 an amount of Rs.43,16,793=47 was fraudulently and dishonestly withdrawn <strong>by</strong> passing 100fake medicines/fodder bills of accused suppliers on the strength of one fakeallotment and five fake sub-allotment letters worth Rs.5,00,000=00 and Rs.36,25,000=00 respectively as stated above under minor head 101(3) materialsupply.Similarly, during 1992-93, against genuine allotment of Rs.1,05,000=00 allotted vide two letters under 101(3) material supply;Rs.30,000=00 allotted vide three allotment letters under 102(4) materialsupply machines and other expenses; and Rs. 46,000=00 allotted vide twoallotment letters under 101(5) material supply an amount of rs.27,19,726=50 was fraudulently withdrawn against fake medicine billspassed on the strength of those letters as well as five fake sub-allotmentletters issued <strong>by</strong> S.M. Ram worth Rs. 25,50,000=00. In 1995-96 againstgenuine allotment of Rs. 60,000=00 under 101(3) material supply receivedvide three allotment letters an amount of Rs. 6,02,630=00 was fraudulentlywithdrawn against two fake allotment letters worth Rs.5.35 lakh <strong>by</strong> passing16 fake medicine bills of different supplier firms. Thus, the story of genuineallotment, fake allotment and fraudulent withdrawals may be summarized asfollows:-Sl. Financial Total Genuine Total fake Total Allotment Total FraudulentNo. Years allotment allotmentwithdrawals01. 1990=91 Rs.3,10,000=00 - Rs.3,10,000=00 Rs.3,15,278=47
1702. 1991-92 Rs.1,55,000=00 Rs.42,25,000=00 Rs.42,80,000=00 Rs.43,16,793=4003. 1992-93 Rs.1,81,000=00 Rs.25,50,000=00 Rs.27,31,000=00 Rs.27,19,726=5004. 1995-96 Rs.60,000=00 Rs.5,35,000=00 Rs.5,95,000=00 Rs.6,02,630=00During investigation sufficient evidences and materials have beencollected <strong>by</strong> the Central Bureau of Investigation against all the accusedpersons and lastly Charge-Sheet has been filed on 08.03.2000 U/Ss. 120-Bread with Section 420/467/468/471/477-A/201 of the Indian Penal Code andU/Sec. 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act,1988 against all the above named accused persons and others.Accordingly, cognizance has been taken on 08.03.2000 <strong>by</strong> theSpecial <strong>Judge</strong>, <strong>CBI</strong> (AHD Scam), Patna.04. It is important to mention here that Charge-sheet was submittedagainst thirty-eight (38) accused persons, out of them two accused namelyM/s Mastrin Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Limited and M/s Inter Pharmaceuticals (I)Pvt. Ltd. were Firms. There Proprietors namely Krishna Murari Prasad andSurendra Nath Sinha have also been made accused in the Charge-Sheethence, the name of these two firms have been excluded from the Column ofaccused persons. After excluding the above named two firm, out of 36accused persons, six accused persons namely (1) Dr. Md. Wasimuddin,D.A.H.O., Sahebganj; (2) Dr. Jugal Kishore <strong>Singh</strong>, D.A.H.O., Sahebganj;(3) Dr. Shesh Muni Ram, Regional Director, AHD, Dumka; (4) LaxmiNarayan <strong>Singh</strong>, Treasury Officer, Sahebganj; (5) Dr. Shyam Bihari Sinha,Regional Joint Director, AHD, Ranchi and (6) Sutughan Hassa, TreasuryOfficer, Sahebganj expired and their names have been expunged. Oneaccused persons Sushil Kumar Jha, Proprietor of M/s Gauri Distributors,Bhagalpur pleaded his guilt and accordingly he was convicted. Threeaccused persons namely (1) Shailesh Prasad <strong>Singh</strong>, Proprietor of M/s ShaktiPharmaceuticals, Bhagalpur, (2) Shiv Kumar Patwari, Proprietor of M/s ShivKumar Patwari, Dumka and (3) Rameshwar Choudhary, Head Clerk,Regional Director Office, AHD, Dumka have been made Approvers. Atpresent the above named twenty-six (26) accused persons are facing trial inthis case.
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